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2017-02-15T02:47:43Z

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This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother. As a general rule wait a few months after it shows up.)

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets. Furthermore, follow the formatting in general, we beg of you.

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie + 1 video-game/episode]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix. [2 movies]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''''' [TV series: 52 episodes + 2 OVAs + 1 movie]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Arise''''' [TV series: 5 OVAs + 10 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Infinity]]

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young-looking yet old immortal outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists with the story eventually revolving around a [[Big Bad Evil Guy|demigod]] sapping the world's energy sources and destroying all life. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, it is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and a yet-more-bloody disregard for the lives of the main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: '''162''' episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust, [[Battlefleet Gothic]]

*'''''Redline''''': This is ''THE'' high-octane anime movie. It took just under 10 years to make, since it's completely hand drawn, and therefore looks totally fucking amazing. What's it about? I dunno, a race or some shit, who cares? Redline sure doesn't. Imagine if Speed Racer, The Wacky Races, and everything anime got thrown into a blender, strained out, and quintuple-cold-filtered until nothing was left but [[awesome|the purest, 201-proof high-speed hype.]] When the movie stops exploding in your face, an expertly-characterized cast is there to keep you engaged, but they're all there for the race too, so don't expect pages of dialogue. Beyond the fantastic animation and characters, the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEwWzMz99A soundtrack] is just as upbeat and high-energy. [1 Movie]
:Related games: Playing Kult Of Speed Orks in [[Warhammer 40,000]]

*'''''Psycho-Pass''''': Often described as "Japan does ''Minority Report,''" Psycho-Pass is about a future where Japan has developed the means to analyze people's mental states and boil them down to a handful of metrics, which are used to [[Paranoia|manage all aspects of society from employment to policing in a technocracy built on a supercomputer called the Sybil System.]] The series revolves around detectives the Public Safety Bureau, the future not-FBI that pursues criminals (people the supercomputer has deemed a threat to society, [[Grimdark|whether or not they've done anything]]) with indentured "latent criminals" and laser guns that [[Rip and tear|can make people explode into showers of gore on their "kill" setting]] but [[What|refuse to fire unless the target scores high enough on the crime-o-meter.]] As one might expect, this system [[Not as planned|does not work as intended.]] Plenty of gritty cyberpunk to be found here; killer robot drones, elaborate criminal schemes, adventures in VR cyberspace, you name it it's here. The creator, Naoyoshi Shiotani, actively rejects [[Weeaboo|generic otaku pandering]] and [[Awesome|explicitly cites Blade Runner, L.A. Confidential and Philip K. Dick as inspiration for the series.]] Also, there's a spinoff video game subtitled [[Paranoia|''Mandatory Happiness.'']] Fuck, if that isn't proof this is perfect fodder for your cyberpunk games nothing is. [TV series: 22 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Paranoia]]

==Mecha==
*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie that you shouldn't watch because it is bad.]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': A sequel to the original that shits on basically everything the first series was about in [[Rage|the most aggravating manner possible]]. Avoid. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[Battletech]]

*'''''Robotech''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts. Also the reason why many of the original [[BattleTech]] designs can never be remodeled again; [[FASA]] licensed the designs from Japan first but [[Games Workshop|Harmony Gold didn't want to share.]] Is an adaptation and combination of three Japanese anime: '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''', '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA''''', for which the term "Macekre" was coined, referring to producer Carl Macek. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[BattleTech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one due to poor ratings, then had a second season greenlit thanks to its performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the Japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series. It also has its [https://rpggeek.com/rpg/4111/armored-trooper-votoms-role-playing-game own role playing system] running off the Fuzion rules. [TV series: 52 episodes + 10 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting. [TV series: 75 episodes + 2 movies +1 OVA]
:Related games: [[BattleTech]], A Time of War

*'''''Mobile Suit Gundam''''': The mecha anime that not only helped popularize Real-Robots in the first place but also started one of the longest-running sci-fi franchises in Japan and in time would help influence the [[Tau]]. Set in the midst of a bloody "One Year War" between the Earth Federation and <s>Space Nazis</s>oppressed colonists called the Principality Zeon, it follows the trials of a whiny teenager who quickly grows a spine, the titular Gundam and the crew of the White Base as they generally try to win the war in one piece, with some <s>psyker</s> Newtype hijinks along the way. Also known for its grey morality, gritty portrayal of war, intrigue, lots of mass produced robots dying in droves and even more deaths. Basically, the Japanese equivalent of Star Wars if it deconstructed Star Trek. Had poor ratings at its initial airing in 1979, only really gaining popularity with successive reruns. [TV series: 43 episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[BattleTech]], [[Warhammer 40000]]

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made. Slap together Mad Max and a ruthless, hyper-violent Bruce Lee, and that should help explain how this show became the legend it is today. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][TV series: 152 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 3 episodes, Spin-Off series: 12 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 74 episodes and counting]
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], low-level [[Exalted]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''''': <span style='color:green'>The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made.</span> Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance. Steve Blum also voices a queer guy, no joke. Notable for the fact that by the final episode the main characters achieve Enuff [[Dakka]] by shooting at an enemy from EVERY POINT IN SPACE AND ACROSS TIME. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 sexy ass music-video]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''Hunter x Hunter''''': Two shota boys fighting dudes. In all seriousness, there are four major characters introduced in the series: Gon the country raised kid who wants to find his awesome dad (shota #1), Killua the young assassin raised in an assassin family who wants to befriend Gon just to escape his assassin duty (shota #2), Kurta the last of its clan of [[psyker|special humans]] that seeks vengeance against a group of super-strong psychopathic bandits, and Leorio who's the weakest of the group but wields THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP (and still ends up doing awesome things later in the show). ''HxH'' builds worlds like ''One Piece'', which is a huge commendation. It also created somewhat balanced and unique [[stat|power level system]] called "nen", a downright rare accomplishment in a genre of [[meme|OVER 9000]] nonsense. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]
:Related games: [[FATE]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][Original TV series: 153 episodes + 3 movies, Z/GT/Super series: 397 episodes + 4 specials + 2 OVAs + 16 movies]
:Related games: [[Legends of the Wulin]], [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a <i>very</i> [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer

==Gaming==
*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon. [OVA series: 3 episodes]
:Related Games: [[Mahjong]]

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls. [TV series: 54 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related Games: [[Mahjong]]

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general. [TV series: 10 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games: [[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Quest thread|quests]]

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins [[OP|who win every game they play]] are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders. They have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]], [[Monopoly#Metanopoly|Metanopoly]]

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Master of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images. [TV series: 1 OVA + 21 episodes]
:Related Games: [[Board Games]], bored games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online''), the first story arch was pretty good :/) Log Horizon is unique in the way it explores how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book. [TV series: 50 episodes]
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'' and ''[[Strike Witches]]'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''Overlord''''': A 2015 adaptation of the first of 10 novels, written in 2012 by Kugane Maruyama after his tabletop group disbanded. It follows Momonga, a guild-leader in the last days of a [[/v/|MMORPG]] just before it shuts down. Instead of getting kicked offline, Momonga [[wat|becomes his level 100 character]], the eponymous "[[lich|overlord]]". Now stuck in the realm of a player-less MMORPG, with every NPC come to life (for good or ill), he takes on the name of his former guild, Ainz Ooal Gown, in the hopes that someone will recognize it, and goes off on various adventures. Almost every spell name is ripped straight from D&D. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: High-level [[3.5e]]

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness and awful budgeting, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes + 2 movies, Reboot: 3 movies and counting]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves! [1 OVA + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''[[Hellsing]]''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction (basically he's fucking Dracula at full power and not stuck in a shitty old man body), and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal <s>Scottish</s> Irish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Divided into two continuities; the original 13 episode TV series (which overtook the manga and so went in an entirely different direction, and has lackluster animation, but also deeper characters and a more even theme) and the "Ultimate" OVA series (totally faithful to the manga, but that also means it keeps pingponging between beautifully animated gorn and cutesy-poo chibi "comedy" sections). [TV Series: 13 Episodes, OVA series: 10 Episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]], [[Vampire: The Requiem]] + [[Hunter: The Vigil]] + [[Deviant: The Renegades]] (TV series only), some batshit insane fusion of [[Vampire: The Masquerade]] and [[Scion]] or [[Exalted]] (Ultimate)

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Cthulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story. [TV series: 23 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone gives it major points. Sometimes known as [[meme|''Record of Loads of War'']]. Plot wise it's a bit cliché, but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 27 TV episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which were lost following an alchemy accident where they attempt to [[Grimdark|revive their mother]]. The story eventually diverges from the manga to the point of characters having completely different roles in the story and which is polarizing when compared with the later series. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for a Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange for knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series. [TV series: 64 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]], [[Eberron]]

*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]]. [TV series: 25 episodes][READ THE MANGA]
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon. [3 movies]
**'''''Berserk (2016)''''': Building largely on the achievements of the aforementioned movie trilogy, the latest incarnation of Berserk finally explores a more monstrous and demon-infested setting set two years after the Golden Age Arc. While despised by many fans for its terrible CG animation and skipping major character moments, it's the best you're going to get for a long while.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing. The TV series and OVA series are separate continuities with some overlap in the form of cameos. [TV series: 104 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 6 + 4 movies]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord (named Demon Lord). In retaliation the Demon Lord diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''. [TV series: 25 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': A retelling of the Sengoku Era of feudal Japan, spearheaded by OP historical figures with varying accuracy and their own special attributes like six-wielding lightning shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star and somehow includes a fucking cyborg titan, steam-punkesque machinery, and magic. Sengoku Basara itself is a series of video games that predate and proceed the story of the anime (not to be confused with Samurai Warriors due to the same setting, same characters, and similar gameplay). [TV series: 24 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]] [TV series: 24 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's DragonMech: The Anime... kinda. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dragonmech]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome... for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ Standard RPG System] obviously

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: [http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon] obviously

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not just historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''The Saga of Tanya the Evil''''': A high functioning sociopath salary-man is murdered by one of his disgruntled employees and gets reincarnated into alt-fantasy 1920s Germany as the smuggest of [[loli]]s. Follows the general rhythms of the 21st-century-war-gamer-nerd-gets-transported-back-in-time genre, with the notable and amusing exception that fate is actively fucking with Tanya to ruin all her carefully planned attempts to escape the war and lead a cushy rear echelon life. It's a surprisingly watchable show for such a silly premise, with Tanya being more likeable by miles than the stuffed shirt protagonists of similar shows (Gate, Outbreak Company, Familiar of Zero, ect.) despite being a (completely magnificent) bitch. [TV series: Slated for 12 Episodes]
:Related games: [[Fulda Gap]], [[Diplomacy]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity|SAN]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''[[Life With Monstergirls|Everyday Life with Monster Girls]]''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. The manga is also a goldmine of reaction images. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so the artist gets as close as he can to actual sex without the sex, thus stringing along the wallets of horny otaku without losing the support of high-profile publishers. [[Games Workshop|So you should be right at home.]] Also expect older /d/eviants to call you a faggot if you like this series thanks its comparative tameness and the number of [[Tumblr|nonces]] who only discovered monstergirls when this series stripped out the [[/d/|"weird"]] and then get triggered by something like [[Mon Musu Quest!]] If you want to see actual boinking, the original author had some webcomics about monstergirls he made under the same name before the manga and anime; [[Weeaboo|weeaboos]] collectively call them '''Daily Life with Monster Girls''' to avoid confusion.
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]], [[Quest thread|quests, quests, quests]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But You Thought Were==
*'''''[[Touhou]]''''': An arcade-style, shoot-em-up vidya series, featuring a 100% [[loli]] cast, barring one or two NPCs here or there. Its fandom is incredibly large and kooky, and so fanart of its characters get plastered all over 4chan, causing newfags to ask what anime they are from and incite much derision. It has however, received several official manga spinoffs. [Video-game series: 25 titles, as of '''''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''''']
:Related games: [[Video games|/v/ stuff, shmups,]] [[Exalted]], [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]].)

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French cartoon about a kid named Yugo who discovers he is part of a long-lost race of people with the ability to create portals. A fun world with fun characters and a surprisingly deep BBEG that is not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]] [TV series: 52 episodes + 6 specials + 27 episode mini-series]
** '''''Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim''''': Is an episodic series about a retired adventurer who runs an item shop, set around 1000 years before the '''''Wakfu''''' timeline and 200 years before the game. [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]
::(Both Dofus and Wakfu stem from flash-made MMOs of the same names, both games have multiple classes that decide players' abilities and base appearance so homebrews are very possible.)
:Related Games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting. Wakfu had an [http://docs.google.com/document/d/14WGhmgmK_tW9LJEQfwFAbpMeja7csNb-zt__3H7SDzQ/ unofficial early beta RPG] and the company Ankama has [http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/news/announcements/265763-would-you-be-interested-tabletop-rpg-set-dofus-world asked if anyone is interested] in an official RPG. There's also '''''[[Krosmaster]]''''', a tactical PvP board-game with online and offline versions, set in the same world.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': In a world where creatures are able to manipulate the elements through martial arts, a child capable of controlling air who froze himself in ice awakens to find that he is the last of his kind. This child is also the Avatar, a person with potential to manipulate all elements and multiply their power by communing with past lives. His adventure involves traveling with friends to master the elements in hopes of unlocking his powers and overthrowing the evil emperor of the Fire Nation that seeks to conquer the world.[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes]
** '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''' [TV series: 52 episodes]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.

*'''''RWBY''''': [[Skub|Anime-esque CGI production]] made by the late Monty Oum and RoosterTeeth. The world is filled with creatures known as Grimm that seek to destroy humanity, stemmed back by a pseudo-magical substance known as Dust and an order of protectors known as Huntsmen, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off [[noblebright]] with themes of tolerance and improving society, then got more [[grimdark]] by the middle of the third season. Generally considered to have a good (if somewhat flawed) story, good characters, and cool weapons; [[Skub|however, not all anons will agree.]] Currently someone is trying to make [[RWBY RPG|an RPG based on the setting]] and RT's game development group recently expressed interest in making tabletop games of the series, supposedly based off a tabletop game played in the series, because [[recursion|Meta things are fun.]]
:Related games: low-level [[Exalted]]

Alpha Centauri

2016-09-17T02:04:38Z

2601:601:4100:5BF1:B463:8BAD:67E9:FCE6: whoops

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Centauri α is the brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus. It is a binary star system, the third brightest star in the night sky, and the extrasolar star closest to our own besides Proxima Centauri (which may or may not be gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri). In 2012 an [[Earth]] sized planet was discovered in the system.

It's a popular destination in near-future space RPGs.

But you're here because of the [[video games|vidya gaem]] "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" (SMAC), which is not only a strategy game accepted and welcome on /tg/, but the faction leaders in the game are also a meme used in mild <strike>role-playing</strike> shitposting

== The Video Game ==
It's the spiritual successor to Civilization 2, and direct predecessor to Civilization 3 since it shares much of of the same dev team. One of the possible ending conditions of the Civilization games is to launch the first colony ship into space -- destination Alpha Centauri. Once they find a habitable planet, the team leaders suffer a political breakdown, culminating in the assassination of the colony ship's captain. Each team leader takes a part of the colony ship and some of the colonists in hibernation, and make planetfall. The game starts with your faction arriving, reviving the colonists for labour, and exploring the new world.

There will never be a sequel to Alpha Centauri because the intellectual property rights are a clusterfuck. But if you really want a spacey 4x game, there's still Galactic Civilizations 2, although unlike SMAC, GC2 is way, way, way the hell soft scifi and doesn't take itself seriously even for a moment. On this subject, SMAC is noted for adhering to science, or at least throwing around sciencey sounding terms quite well. Everything in the setting is just fudging with (then) current understanding of physics to do nifty things. Yes, even the psychic death worms who lay eggs in your brain.

Alternatively, there's ''Civilization: Beyond Earth'', which is, if not a sequel, than at least a game built with the same creative DNA with some of the same concepts. Unfortunately, it's just a watered-down version of Civ V with all traces of character or complexity utterly stripped away. Alas.

== The Roleplaying Game ==
Steve Jackson Games made a [[GURPS]] sourcebook for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. The cover has a white border, which is unusual for GURPS splatbooks. You can usually find a scan of this book in 4chan's rapidshares catalog.

Some parts are pretty awesome, some are a little... meh. (The Spartans are generally crazier than they are even in the games.) It actually offers several suggestions for running a game set on Alpha Centauri, including ways to tweak the setting so that multi-faction parties are possible, though its attempts to integrate the "tech-levels" of the game into an overall narrative are a little... over the top.

== The Factions ==
The elegan/tg/entlefolk, fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls will sometimes post to a thread with one of the faction leader portraits and respond in-character for that faction leader. This should help you understand what the fuck they're on about.

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|[[Image:SMAC_Deirdre.jpg]]
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;Gaia's Stepdaughters
:Leader: Lady Deirdre Skye (Scottish)
:Pacifist, Explorers, Green agenda, hates Free Market
:Hippy-dippy freak. Wants to integrate with the existing biology, including the mind-raping local fauna. Still hot. Will mostly leave you alone, so long as you've got a Green economy and don't mind her running her mind-worm boils over your lawn. Probably the canonical winner, since her name's on the game-winning tech.
|}

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|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Yang.jpg]]
|
;Human Hive
:Leader: Chairman Sheng-ji Yang (Chinese)
:Aggressive, Conquerers/Builders, Police State agenda, hates Democracy
:Insane totalitarian fuck. TO THE EXXXTREME. Think Mao meets Stalin meets Nietzsche meets Confucius, and you've got a pretty good idea what he's all about. All about everyone being equal and subservient to the whole, even if it requires brain stapling [[Tau|for the greater good]]. Everyone lives underground, meaning that digging out his blood-tick cities is a pain in the butt. He's a warmongering asshole who ''will not'' coexist with anyone who does not share his extremely narrow set of social policies. And that really sucks, because anyone ''else'' attempting them is basically committing economic suicide. (Only his faction bonuses allow him to ignore the penalties, and the Hive is ''still'' usually pretty broke.)
|}

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|[[Image:SMAC_Miriam.jpg]]
|
;Lord's Believers
:Leader: Sister Miriam Godwinson (American)
:Aggressive, Explorers/Conquerors, Fundamentalist agenda, hates Knowledge-seekers
:Totally psycho Christfag bitch who spams demands every turn then declares war the moment you decline. Usually the first faction you fight if you're playing as Zakharov. Fairly strong militarily, but get this, they can't research at all for the first ten turns and take a massive penalty from then on, so Believers are ''proper'' fucked if the early game doesn't go [[Just As Planned]]. Miriam, in her wisdom, won't accept anything less than ''complete'' submission to her every social policy, and is burdened with an AI that will be hyper-aggressive with her rocks-and-sticks little army. This means, she'll either control a gigantic empire that controls half the planet by the time you encounter her, or more hopefully, she'll get hilariously squished out of existence by overwhelming superiority very early on. Just putting her in a game will likely involve [[Anal circumference]] going one way or another. Notably the only American representative.
|}

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|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Morgan.jpg|left]]
|
;Morgan Industries
:Leader: CEO Nwabudike Morgan (Namibian)
:Pacifist, Builders, Free Market agenda, hates Planned Economies
:Morgan is all about the Benjamins, and making sure his peeps are living the high life. Problem is he's the kind of greedy asshole who'll happily rape the planet beyond saving to do just that, so the Gaians and the Cult tend to pick fights with him often. Doesn't matter if he succeeds though because THE FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT! He's a black space Jew, a.k.a. the plague, but he won't openly try to slap your shit as long as you're not a dirty commie. One of the few factions that can actually reliably try for the otherwise-wonky "economic" victory, naturally, though even for him it's much easier to go for any of the other win conditions by throwing throwing money at any problems that present themselves until they go away and leave behind supremacy.
|}

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|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Pravin.jpg|right]]
|
;Peacekeeping Forces
:Leader: Commissioner Pravin Lal (Indian)
:Erratic, no specialists, Democracy agenda, hates Police State
:When role-playing in a thread, Pravin will usually say something about "why don't we come to some sort of agreement" and everyone else will agree that Pravin should shut the fuck up. He's a limp-dicked peacenik and thus usually the first to get wiped out, but he's tied with Deidere in being the overall fairest to his people, and he's one of the few leaders whose opinion can't be bought - this motherfucker furiously wanks over the UN Charter and ''will'' uphold it, even if you offer him almost everything you have or press an impact rifle up against his braincase. When the worst that can be said of you is that you want to try to clone your dead wife so that the whole "death" thing won't permanently destroy your marriage, you're still the most ethical leader on Planet. Has few real strengths or weaknesses, so his faction is good for beginners to learn the ropes with, though victory with him will ultimately rely on the skill and talent of the player rather than the powers and bonuses of the faction to carry the day.
|}

{|border=0
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|[[Image:SMAC_Santiago.jpg]]
|
;Spartan Federation
:Leader: Colonel Corazón Santiago (Puerto Rican)
:Erratic, Discoverers/Conquerers, Power agenda, hates Wealth
:Has [[-4 Str|plus-four strength]]. All about military power and how soldiers are superior to soft lazy civvies like you. Most often accused of assassinating the colony ship's captain, despite a complete lack of proof and claiming, for once, she didn't kill anybody. She's a psychopathic douchenozzle and often gets herself killed when she picks a fight with too many people at once, and is completely suspicious of anyone who picks a "value" other than "power." That said, if you beat her up and she surrenders, she actually means it, and will loyally serve you for the rest of the game. Has a brutal early-game, since her troops have super-morale and level up quickly, but needs to get ''some'' extra tech to avoid turning into [[Imperium of Man|a has-been ex-superpower being picked off by inches]] before the game's out. More-or-less obliged to try to win by beating the shit out of everyone else too, which gives her some predictability problems, though at least she's not in quite as bad of shape as Miriam on that score.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Zakharov.jpg]]
|
;University of Planet
:Leader: Academician Prokhor Zakharov (Russian)
:Erratic, Researchers, Knowledge-seeking agenda, hates Fundamentalists
:Techno-fetish nerd, with all the toys (all of them), thus beloved of the denizens of /tg/ and /v/. He and Miriam fight like cats and dogs -- if only they'd finally get a room and fuck, but she's an ugly bitch and he's a unwashed dweeb, so it'll never work out. Prone to ranting about misconceptions of SCIENCE! and the evils of brain-rotting superstition while indulging in the occasional horrifyingly-unethical live vivisection. Particularly vulnerable to backdoor probing until he gets his secret security projects, and then those pesky probe teams will cry.
|}

The expansion pack Alien Crossfire upped the ante by adding new factions so criminally unbalanced they made the others obsolete.

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|[[Image:Ulrik Svensgaard.jpg]]
|
;Nautilus Pirates
:Leader: Ulrik Svensgaard (American)
:Agressive, Explorers, Power agenda
:Annoying anarchist douche desperately trying to be Captain Nemo while drunkenly cosplaying as a classical pirate. Piratical raiders who start in the ocean unchallenged. If played by the AI they will reach epidemic levels of city expansion before you can field a navy, making conquering their strung out train wreck of an empire almost as bad as ignoring it - unless you've done your research, have a decent army, or declare him a non-person to gang up on.
|}

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|- valign=top
|[[Image:Cha Dawn.jpg]]
|
;Cult of Planet
:Leader: Cha Dawn (Unknown)
:Erratic, Discoverers/Conquerers, Green agenda, hates Wealth
:Batshit loopy super hippies led by a psychic child of the corn who makes Deirdre look like Morgan. Basically what would happen if PETA managed to take control of a country. Takes over for Lal as the first person to get hilariously rolled out in the expansion unless he finds some mind worms double quick. If foolishly allowed to live unmolested they will turn the game into a [[/d/|tentacle rape]] simulator for any player foolish enough to have an economy. Of course mind worms become easy-peasy late game, so laugh as he funnels free experience points into your troops.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:Sinder Roze.jpg]]
|
;Data Angels
:Leader: Datajack Sinder Roze (Trinidadian)
:Erratic, Democracy agenda, hates Power
:Basically 4chan in charge of a civilization. Tend to oppose the Believers on principle, because the information wants to be free, baby. Hence the other favourite faction besides Zakharov. Make good allies if you can put up with their practical jokes (read: "anything the probe team can get away with"). Otherwise not all that annoying and they're easily ground into the dirt by a half competent military if they get uppity.
|}

{|border=0
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|[[Image:Aki Zeta-5.jpg]]
|
;Cybernetic Consciousness
:Leader: Prime Function Aki Zeta 5 (Norwegian)
:Erratic, Discoverers, Cybernetic agenda, hates Fundamentalism
: Asexual cyborg whose half-robot populace has trouble getting themselves to make babies, but will be teching on towards victory while you're still trying to bang rocks together. Will cheerfully befriend you early on and trade tech to you at very reasonable prices for most of the game, until you turn down the perfectly reasonable late game option of subsuming your entire civilization into a cybernetic collective. Tends to skimp on her military, deal with her by drowning her in corpses, the manly way. If playing as her, her tech-looting powers ironically make military expansion one of your more-viable strategies.
|}

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|[[Image:Foreman Domai.jpg]]
|
;Free Drones
:Leader: Foreman Domai (Australian)
:Erratic, Builder, Eudaimonic agenda
:A badass Australian ex-Drone who lead a slave-revolt out from under Yang to build a less crazy, more bullshit overpowered version of the Hive. Can crap out an entire continent's worth of infrastructure before you build your third city. Oh, and after you meet him you start getting communist revolutions instead of drone riots. Fun. He'll probably still be swinging around lasers while you're blasting things with cosmic strings though, assuming you don't give him the time to build enough Labs to make that penalty meaningless. He and Aki Zeta-5 hate each other late game ''almost'' as much as they want to bone each other for the rest of the game, and from their murderous hatefuck of an alliance you will know pain, as their problems are basically mirror-images of one another. The probable canon winner of the expansion story, given his name's (paradoxically) on the all-powerful cosmic-string-resonance supergun.
|}

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|- valign=top
|[[Image:Lular Hminee.jpg]]
|
;Manifold Caretakers
:Leader: Guardian Lular H'minee
:Aggressive, prevent transcendence agenda, hates Manifold Usurpers
:Planet's absentee landlords, who have come back after a teensy weensy problem with the other manifold reaching sentience and killing everything within three systems. She'll drop ''everything'' to try to murder the everliving shit out of anybody who tries to go for the Transcendence victory, because she has firsthand experience in exactly what that kinda shit will lead up to. Ridiculously overpowered in most regards, they are balanced by the fact that they aren't UN members and are automatically hostile to the Manifold Usurpers. Oh what's that? That last one never made it into the multiplayer game due to a bug? Thanks Firaxis.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:Judaa Marr.jpg]]
|
;Manifold Usurpers
:Leader: Usurper Judaa Marr
:Aggressive, transcendence agenda, hates Manifold Caretakers
:The second alien race and resident [[that guy]]. Wants to hijack Planet's evolution and use it to turn his faction (and yours too, Earthman, if you jump on this alliance for the low-low price of your total submission!) into a a single hive-minded psionic god. Plays as more of a [[rip and tear]] marauding-barbarian type to H'minee's turtling builder, sharing their "weaknesses." Once he allies with Domai and starts feeding him tech, it's fucking over. Enjoy your web-mouthed alien overlords.
|}

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{{Promotions}}
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==Links==
You know how you said that there wouldn't be a second? Think aga- its Noblebright and meh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKew81njs5w
[[Category:Video Games]]

Alpha Centauri

2016-09-17T02:04:23Z

2601:601:4100:5BF1:B463:8BAD:67E9:FCE6: Comedy

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Centauri α is the brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus. It is a binary star system, the third brightest star in the night sky, and the extrasolar star closest to our own besides Proxima Centauri (which may or may not be gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri). In 2012 an [[Earth]] sized planet was discovered in the system.

It's a popular destination in near-future space RPGs.

But you're here because of the [[video games|vidya gaem]] "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" (SMAC), which is not only a strategy game accepted and welcome on /tg/, but the faction leaders in the game are also a meme used in mild <strike>role-playing.</strike> shitposting

== The Video Game ==
It's the spiritual successor to Civilization 2, and direct predecessor to Civilization 3 since it shares much of of the same dev team. One of the possible ending conditions of the Civilization games is to launch the first colony ship into space -- destination Alpha Centauri. Once they find a habitable planet, the team leaders suffer a political breakdown, culminating in the assassination of the colony ship's captain. Each team leader takes a part of the colony ship and some of the colonists in hibernation, and make planetfall. The game starts with your faction arriving, reviving the colonists for labour, and exploring the new world.

There will never be a sequel to Alpha Centauri because the intellectual property rights are a clusterfuck. But if you really want a spacey 4x game, there's still Galactic Civilizations 2, although unlike SMAC, GC2 is way, way, way the hell soft scifi and doesn't take itself seriously even for a moment. On this subject, SMAC is noted for adhering to science, or at least throwing around sciencey sounding terms quite well. Everything in the setting is just fudging with (then) current understanding of physics to do nifty things. Yes, even the psychic death worms who lay eggs in your brain.

Alternatively, there's ''Civilization: Beyond Earth'', which is, if not a sequel, than at least a game built with the same creative DNA with some of the same concepts. Unfortunately, it's just a watered-down version of Civ V with all traces of character or complexity utterly stripped away. Alas.

== The Roleplaying Game ==
Steve Jackson Games made a [[GURPS]] sourcebook for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. The cover has a white border, which is unusual for GURPS splatbooks. You can usually find a scan of this book in 4chan's rapidshares catalog.

Some parts are pretty awesome, some are a little... meh. (The Spartans are generally crazier than they are even in the games.) It actually offers several suggestions for running a game set on Alpha Centauri, including ways to tweak the setting so that multi-faction parties are possible, though its attempts to integrate the "tech-levels" of the game into an overall narrative are a little... over the top.

== The Factions ==
The elegan/tg/entlefolk, fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls will sometimes post to a thread with one of the faction leader portraits and respond in-character for that faction leader. This should help you understand what the fuck they're on about.

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Deirdre.jpg]]
|
;Gaia's Stepdaughters
:Leader: Lady Deirdre Skye (Scottish)
:Pacifist, Explorers, Green agenda, hates Free Market
:Hippy-dippy freak. Wants to integrate with the existing biology, including the mind-raping local fauna. Still hot. Will mostly leave you alone, so long as you've got a Green economy and don't mind her running her mind-worm boils over your lawn. Probably the canonical winner, since her name's on the game-winning tech.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Yang.jpg]]
|
;Human Hive
:Leader: Chairman Sheng-ji Yang (Chinese)
:Aggressive, Conquerers/Builders, Police State agenda, hates Democracy
:Insane totalitarian fuck. TO THE EXXXTREME. Think Mao meets Stalin meets Nietzsche meets Confucius, and you've got a pretty good idea what he's all about. All about everyone being equal and subservient to the whole, even if it requires brain stapling [[Tau|for the greater good]]. Everyone lives underground, meaning that digging out his blood-tick cities is a pain in the butt. He's a warmongering asshole who ''will not'' coexist with anyone who does not share his extremely narrow set of social policies. And that really sucks, because anyone ''else'' attempting them is basically committing economic suicide. (Only his faction bonuses allow him to ignore the penalties, and the Hive is ''still'' usually pretty broke.)
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Miriam.jpg]]
|
;Lord's Believers
:Leader: Sister Miriam Godwinson (American)
:Aggressive, Explorers/Conquerors, Fundamentalist agenda, hates Knowledge-seekers
:Totally psycho Christfag bitch who spams demands every turn then declares war the moment you decline. Usually the first faction you fight if you're playing as Zakharov. Fairly strong militarily, but get this, they can't research at all for the first ten turns and take a massive penalty from then on, so Believers are ''proper'' fucked if the early game doesn't go [[Just As Planned]]. Miriam, in her wisdom, won't accept anything less than ''complete'' submission to her every social policy, and is burdened with an AI that will be hyper-aggressive with her rocks-and-sticks little army. This means, she'll either control a gigantic empire that controls half the planet by the time you encounter her, or more hopefully, she'll get hilariously squished out of existence by overwhelming superiority very early on. Just putting her in a game will likely involve [[Anal circumference]] going one way or another. Notably the only American representative.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Morgan.jpg|left]]
|
;Morgan Industries
:Leader: CEO Nwabudike Morgan (Namibian)
:Pacifist, Builders, Free Market agenda, hates Planned Economies
:Morgan is all about the Benjamins, and making sure his peeps are living the high life. Problem is he's the kind of greedy asshole who'll happily rape the planet beyond saving to do just that, so the Gaians and the Cult tend to pick fights with him often. Doesn't matter if he succeeds though because THE FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT! He's a black space Jew, a.k.a. the plague, but he won't openly try to slap your shit as long as you're not a dirty commie. One of the few factions that can actually reliably try for the otherwise-wonky "economic" victory, naturally, though even for him it's much easier to go for any of the other win conditions by throwing throwing money at any problems that present themselves until they go away and leave behind supremacy.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Pravin.jpg|right]]
|
;Peacekeeping Forces
:Leader: Commissioner Pravin Lal (Indian)
:Erratic, no specialists, Democracy agenda, hates Police State
:When role-playing in a thread, Pravin will usually say something about "why don't we come to some sort of agreement" and everyone else will agree that Pravin should shut the fuck up. He's a limp-dicked peacenik and thus usually the first to get wiped out, but he's tied with Deidere in being the overall fairest to his people, and he's one of the few leaders whose opinion can't be bought - this motherfucker furiously wanks over the UN Charter and ''will'' uphold it, even if you offer him almost everything you have or press an impact rifle up against his braincase. When the worst that can be said of you is that you want to try to clone your dead wife so that the whole "death" thing won't permanently destroy your marriage, you're still the most ethical leader on Planet. Has few real strengths or weaknesses, so his faction is good for beginners to learn the ropes with, though victory with him will ultimately rely on the skill and talent of the player rather than the powers and bonuses of the faction to carry the day.
|}

{|border=0
|- valign=top
|[[Image:SMAC_Santiago.jpg]]
|
;Spartan Federation
:Leader: Colonel Corazón Santiago (Puerto Rican)
:Erratic, Discoverers/Conquerers, Power agenda, hates Wealth
:Has [[-4 Str|plus-four strength]]. All about military power and how soldiers are superior to soft lazy civvies like you. Most often accused of assassinating the colony ship's captain, despite a complete lack of proof and claiming, for once, she didn't kill anybody. She's a psychopathic douchenozzle and often gets herself killed when she picks a fight with too many people at once, and is completely suspicious of anyone who picks a "value" other than "power." That said, if you beat her up and she surrenders, she actually means it, and will loyally serve you for the rest of the game. Has a brutal early-game, since her troops have super-morale and level up quickly, but needs to get ''some'' extra tech to avoid turning into [[Imperium of Man|a has-been ex-superpower being picked off by inches]] before the game's out. More-or-less obliged to try to win by beating the shit out of everyone else too, which gives her some predictability problems, though at least she's not in quite as bad of shape as Miriam on that score.
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;University of Planet
:Leader: Academician Prokhor Zakharov (Russian)
:Erratic, Researchers, Knowledge-seeking agenda, hates Fundamentalists
:Techno-fetish nerd, with all the toys (all of them), thus beloved of the denizens of /tg/ and /v/. He and Miriam fight like cats and dogs -- if only they'd finally get a room and fuck, but she's an ugly bitch and he's a unwashed dweeb, so it'll never work out. Prone to ranting about misconceptions of SCIENCE! and the evils of brain-rotting superstition while indulging in the occasional horrifyingly-unethical live vivisection. Particularly vulnerable to backdoor probing until he gets his secret security projects, and then those pesky probe teams will cry.
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The expansion pack Alien Crossfire upped the ante by adding new factions so criminally unbalanced they made the others obsolete.

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;Nautilus Pirates
:Leader: Ulrik Svensgaard (American)
:Agressive, Explorers, Power agenda
:Annoying anarchist douche desperately trying to be Captain Nemo while drunkenly cosplaying as a classical pirate. Piratical raiders who start in the ocean unchallenged. If played by the AI they will reach epidemic levels of city expansion before you can field a navy, making conquering their strung out train wreck of an empire almost as bad as ignoring it - unless you've done your research, have a decent army, or declare him a non-person to gang up on.
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;Cult of Planet
:Leader: Cha Dawn (Unknown)
:Erratic, Discoverers/Conquerers, Green agenda, hates Wealth
:Batshit loopy super hippies led by a psychic child of the corn who makes Deirdre look like Morgan. Basically what would happen if PETA managed to take control of a country. Takes over for Lal as the first person to get hilariously rolled out in the expansion unless he finds some mind worms double quick. If foolishly allowed to live unmolested they will turn the game into a [[/d/|tentacle rape]] simulator for any player foolish enough to have an economy. Of course mind worms become easy-peasy late game, so laugh as he funnels free experience points into your troops.
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;Data Angels
:Leader: Datajack Sinder Roze (Trinidadian)
:Erratic, Democracy agenda, hates Power
:Basically 4chan in charge of a civilization. Tend to oppose the Believers on principle, because the information wants to be free, baby. Hence the other favourite faction besides Zakharov. Make good allies if you can put up with their practical jokes (read: "anything the probe team can get away with"). Otherwise not all that annoying and they're easily ground into the dirt by a half competent military if they get uppity.
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;Cybernetic Consciousness
:Leader: Prime Function Aki Zeta 5 (Norwegian)
:Erratic, Discoverers, Cybernetic agenda, hates Fundamentalism
: Asexual cyborg whose half-robot populace has trouble getting themselves to make babies, but will be teching on towards victory while you're still trying to bang rocks together. Will cheerfully befriend you early on and trade tech to you at very reasonable prices for most of the game, until you turn down the perfectly reasonable late game option of subsuming your entire civilization into a cybernetic collective. Tends to skimp on her military, deal with her by drowning her in corpses, the manly way. If playing as her, her tech-looting powers ironically make military expansion one of your more-viable strategies.
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;Free Drones
:Leader: Foreman Domai (Australian)
:Erratic, Builder, Eudaimonic agenda
:A badass Australian ex-Drone who lead a slave-revolt out from under Yang to build a less crazy, more bullshit overpowered version of the Hive. Can crap out an entire continent's worth of infrastructure before you build your third city. Oh, and after you meet him you start getting communist revolutions instead of drone riots. Fun. He'll probably still be swinging around lasers while you're blasting things with cosmic strings though, assuming you don't give him the time to build enough Labs to make that penalty meaningless. He and Aki Zeta-5 hate each other late game ''almost'' as much as they want to bone each other for the rest of the game, and from their murderous hatefuck of an alliance you will know pain, as their problems are basically mirror-images of one another. The probable canon winner of the expansion story, given his name's (paradoxically) on the all-powerful cosmic-string-resonance supergun.
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;Manifold Caretakers
:Leader: Guardian Lular H'minee
:Aggressive, prevent transcendence agenda, hates Manifold Usurpers
:Planet's absentee landlords, who have come back after a teensy weensy problem with the other manifold reaching sentience and killing everything within three systems. She'll drop ''everything'' to try to murder the everliving shit out of anybody who tries to go for the Transcendence victory, because she has firsthand experience in exactly what that kinda shit will lead up to. Ridiculously overpowered in most regards, they are balanced by the fact that they aren't UN members and are automatically hostile to the Manifold Usurpers. Oh what's that? That last one never made it into the multiplayer game due to a bug? Thanks Firaxis.
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;Manifold Usurpers
:Leader: Usurper Judaa Marr
:Aggressive, transcendence agenda, hates Manifold Caretakers
:The second alien race and resident [[that guy]]. Wants to hijack Planet's evolution and use it to turn his faction (and yours too, Earthman, if you jump on this alliance for the low-low price of your total submission!) into a a single hive-minded psionic god. Plays as more of a [[rip and tear]] marauding-barbarian type to H'minee's turtling builder, sharing their "weaknesses." Once he allies with Domai and starts feeding him tech, it's fucking over. Enjoy your web-mouthed alien overlords.
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==Links==
You know how you said that there wouldn't be a second? Think aga- its Noblebright and meh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKew81njs5w
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Knight

2016-09-01T12:35:04Z

2601:601:4100:5BF1:B463:8BAD:67E9:FCE6: One of the downsides of a Cavalier unless you pick a usually unpicked unmounted archetype.

[[Image:NormansKnight.jpg|right|thumb|Medieval Europe's equivelent of Hell's Angels]]

''Not to be confused with the [[Imperial Knight|Steampunk Titan.]].''

The '''"Knight"''' ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY Pronounced 'Kuh-niggit' for you Frenchies with outrageous accents]) is an title given to a loyal servant of a monarchy in olden Europe. To start your knightly lineage, you must be valuable enough to your lord that he eventually bestows knighthood upon you. Once that is done, you are officially part of your kingdom's nobility (albeit at the near bottom of the ladder, but you're leagues better off than the common folk) and any children you bear will also be knights, who will then continue your proud lineage throughout the ages.

Knights originally started back in the early days of the 10th century as elite soldiers who fought on horseback, but started becoming the chivalrous, romantic daredevils we all know and love by the 12th, due to the influence of Christianity throughout Europe. They are usually rich-enough blokes that knight families typically owned atleast one estate that they may develop as they see fit.

These guys were the greatest thing in Europe's arsenal for nearly a thousand years before being weakened by Italian pike formations, [[firearm|another chinese import]] and the idea of a professional and standardized standing army which gradually put an end to the age of knights. Then, in the 19th century and after the French revolution, Romanticists who wanted to defend the old order of things against upstart ideas about "democracy" and suchlike began looking to the past with rose coloured glasses and forgot about the shitty quality of that period and instead saw dashing knights in shining armor (a phrase that originally meant "The New guy who has never been through battle" FYI).

== Misconceptions ==

In modern parlance, Knight is the catch-all term for some posh bloke who fought on horseback with decent armour and weapons. But the term 'Knight' refers to the ''social rank'' of the man, not the way he fought.

Most armored guys on the battlefield (usually carrying shield, non rusted armor and a decent weapon) were [[Men at Arms]] -- a better equipped class of soldier. Through patronage of a wealthy lord; large groups of these blokes were kitted out with decent weaponry and armour (to varying degrees). They sometimes had a horse if there weren't enough cavalry, otherwise they just be a better equipped form of infantry. They were usually of better social standing than their comrades serving in a Lord's (or Knight's) armies as meat shields and arrow fodder (Re: conscripted peasant), although that itself would vary from men who their overlord might socialise with to a degree, to a better off commoner like a merchant who simply bought better armor than the smelly peasants, or they might just be some smelly oik with an aptitude for combat kitted out at his Lordship's expense.

Since most Knights were fairly wealthy; they nearly always fought as Men at Arms (being that they could afford decent plate armor, an arsenal of weapons, and a war horse, on their own), though not all Men at Arms were Knights. It is also worth noting that Men at Arms usually were poorer equipped than Knights, and often received little to no training which usually lasted between a fortnight and a month. Knights, however, were trained from the age of six and had the option and means of having their own armor and weapons specially made/procured for them. Additionally, any non-noble who was able to attain knighthood though exemplary military service would have been a warrior of few equal.

It is also worth noting that some Knights did not fight at all, being too sickly, too old when war broke out, or simply too scared. Due to this, some knights engaged in civilian leadership roles, rather than military ones.

== The Modern Take ==

In our current times the misconceptions mentioned above have created a stereotype in the general public's mind of what it means to be a knight; an owner of land and a castle, wearing that ridiculous heavy armour on top of a mighty horse and being the upmost example of honour, valour and nobility. This is because over time people have a tendency to start romanticizing things in poems and stories until what it originally was is buried under a mound of half-truths and plot twistings.

For example there is that tricky part of the tale of King Arthur: his dad Uther Pendragon wants to have it off with the lady Igraine, who is married to his enemy Gorlois. So, using circumstances and Merlin's magics, Uther takes on the identity of her husband, has his way with her, and then nine months down the line Arthur is born, an illegitimate child. This is left out of many tales except those seriously referencing the old poems as it is not the heroic source of the once and future king that many would expect (in later legend there is emphasis that Gorlois actually dies before the conception, therefore changing the fluff of the legend in Uther's father. A predecessor to Matt Ward it looks like).

So many use knights are a standard for human warriors of chivalry going out and slaying various beasts and saving various maidens (most fantasy settings, RPGs and mmorpg's use knights as a class type, some renaming to make them sound more original like 'Paladin' or 'Crusader').

==Fantasy Knights in a Nutshell==
If you are a chivalrous knight in such a modern fantasy setting, your usual duties will include:

* Quest Taking: From killing a dragon to drive the moles out of the fields of farmers, anything that troubles the people; you must help.
* Monster killing: Really a whole category of it's own although often a Quest as well, there are various nasty critters around and in ye olde times you would serve as a pest exterminator for hire.
* Damsel rescuing: Even if she is married, you could get a kiss and hopefully a hefty reward for giving her a hand.
* Helping out your king: At times you'll be called on to help your king or lord and hook up with a bunch of your knightly mates to rout some naughty foreigners giving the kingdom trouble.
* Wench pulling: You keep an entire industry of busty women in business with the profits from your questing.
* Looking impressive: The armour is not just practical, it is also for show. It gives the peasants something nice to gawk at.
* Example setting: Along with looking good, you have to practice being good to and showing everyone how to be a goodie-two-shoes. From escorting ladies to putting your cloak out across a puddle, saying hello to Ted the stable boy, to upholding your kingdom's faith and smiting any heretic who dares besmirch your god; being a choir boy is a 24/7 job. This is also the reason why Knights are typically [[Paladin]] equivalents in fantasy.
* Training a squire: Knights don't just come out of nowhere, you got to have yourself an apprentice too. The good thing about it is they act like your own personal servant while you train them up and you might learn something while you are doing it too.

== Old-School D&D ==
Both 1st edition [[Dungeons & Dragons]] and [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 2e featured the knightly archetype in their options. For 1e, [[Gary Gygax]] himself created the [[Cavalier]] in an issue of [[Dragon Magazine]] as a variant [[Paladin]]. It... didn't work out so well. For 2e, the knightly motif was conveyed by certain [[Kits]], predominantly for the Warrior class-group, with the most obvious version being, again, the Cavalier.

The Cavalier is not held up very highly by most [[Grognard]]s, for reasons explained on its page.

== [[Pathfinder]] - The Cavalier ==

Paizo has added traditional knights/men-at-arms to the Pathfinder roleplaying game, as the [[Cavalier]] class. They're a lot like Paladins without the magic and being actually useful in dungeons. They differentiate themselves from the ''other'' melee classes in two major important ways: mounts and orders.

First of all, the cavalier focuses heavily on mounted combat. Lots of his class abilities give out bonuses to him and his team while he's on his mount, including his "banner" skills, and let him bond with one particular animal. Note that Pathfinder has rules for riding critters like [[Lizardmen|motherfucking dinosaurs]] and [[monstergirls|sexy lady]] [[centaur]]s, so don't feel compelled to settle for regular old horses. Every cavalier can also challenge enemies one at a time in the best tradition of chivalry, bashing the head of their chosen target in the ground in the name of honor, and they are natural tacticians, handing out Teamwork feats to the whole party a couple times a day.

Second, a cavalier gets to choose from a variety of "Knightly Orders," that give him additional benefits and customizability, but also require him to keep up a code of conduct. ''Unlike'' the [[paladin]]'s code, though, not all of these "codes of conduct" are pure Lawful Good stuff, and many vary heavily from order to order. Some outright tell you to be a murderous bastard, some basically make you act like a mini-paladin, and most give you an ideal, such as knowledge, glory, or beauty, to defend and strive for. You don't necessarily ''lose'' those benefits if you're terminally unable to roleplay your order right, but you ''will'' get jumped by other members who don't like you sullying their good (or evil!) name.

The [[Samurai]] class is a derivative of the Cavalier class, which mostly makes sense, and even comes with a few cool new Knightly Orders, though crosspicking is possible for both parties.
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== D&D 3.5 ==
They have a high base attack bonus and roll D12s for HP. There abilities are purely related to taking hits and forcing a single target to hit them, similar in concept to a 4E tank class, but with significantly less versatility in terms of providing damage output, boosting allies or disrupting the flow of the fight to suit his party. Probably one of the weakest classes as too much of its abilities are focused on being a punching bag of HP instead of an actual tank that is hard to hurt and lacks the ability to fuck things over, if you're familiar with how Marking a target works in 4E, its based off this guy, but at least in 4E you have penalties other than the -2 to hit to control your opponent. Like paladins this class has a code of conduct. Unlike paladins, the consequences of breaking this code of conduct last a day tops (directly anyways, who knows what larger setbacks it might result in). The code of conduct consists of what they consider a "fair play". Part of the code of conduct is not dealing lethal damage to helpless foes. By the way, some creatures are immune to non-lethal damage.

'''TL;DR''' A bunch of Hit Points that prototyped the tank class mechanics of 4E that lacks any choice beyond taking it in the gut. Avoid and just refluff a paladin as an atheist.

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== D&D 5e ==
Since knightly orders are a big thing in [[Forgotten Realms]], the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] features two class variants with a knightly theme.

The Banneret (or Purple Dragon Knight, in-universe) is a [[Fighter]] martial archetype revolving around the concept of an elite and noble warrior whose skill allows them to inspire others to greatness in battle. It gets a bunch of class features reminiscent of 4e's [[Warlord]], like healing allies when the fighter uses their Second Wind, triggering an ally to attack when you use Action Surge, and the ability to extend Indomitable to your allies.

The Oath of the Crown for [[Paladin]]s, meanwhile, specifically represents the blur between knight and paladin, with a focus on lawfulness, order, and the sanctity of civilization in contrast to the paladin's general focus on doing good. It has features that let it serve as a mighty champion, and spells that tap into its spiritual authority, mostly enchantments like Command and Geas.

== See also ==
*[[Bretonnia]]: A nation in [[Warhammer Fantasy]] based around these fuckers.
*[[Samurai]]: The Eastern version.

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Cubes

2016-07-25T01:41:37Z

2601:601:4100:5BF1:B463:8BAD:67E9:FCE6: It never really gives any info on the joke, and it would help if you were to explain the joke enough to where the reader won't be lost on the joke.

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[[Image:Battlecubes.png|400px|thumb|They come.]]

OH GOD MY HEAD IS FULL OF CUBES

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Image:Cube_The_Movie_Poster_Art.jpg|These f***ing things have a MOVIE too!!?!?
Image:Magnetic-Rubiks-Dice-Cube.jpg|Little Known Fact: Your D6's are cubes too.
Image:Companion_Cube-20071016-095205.jpg|Cubes have already invaded /v/...
Image:Tesseract_1.png|...and /sci/. This thing is an extradimensional cube, too! It could probably dislodge [[Truly Immovable Rod|Immovable Rods!]]
Image:Monolith.gif|[[Monolith]]s are almost cubes, and not quite as deadly.
Image:Cubes_forever.jpg|They are legion.
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==See Also==
* [[Adventure Time]]
* [[Metal Boxes]]
* [[Sphere of Annihilation]]
* [[Timecube RPG]]
* [[Timecube Chess]]
* [[Minecraft]], the game of cubes

[[Category:Meme]]