Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97354183>They invalidated all my models I bought prior to Mk4. I have thousands worth of them with thousands of hours of painting.This. It sucks that the cryx army I loved playing back in the day is completely invalidated>"dude, it's got a legacy list"Ah yes. Legacy lists, those notoriously weak begrudgingly written lists to make it look like SF is actually on the side of older fans.>>97331983>CMONFound the problem. Remember that these retards bought some of the best wargaming IP's and ran them into the ground, including Darkage, my beloved.
>>97331983>>97354521> and now their big plan for ASOIAF is to fucking gut the best rules of the game so that players will better adhere to the original "vision" the lead developer has for the game, instead of playing the game as it emerged over years of active gamingquick rundown? or rather, a longer retelling with more details
>>97354548It's CMON. That alone should tell you everything you need to know. they have a history of pump and dump kickstarters and buying really good games only to run them into the ground and drop them. Hence my decade+ of salt over Darkage and how they didn't even finish the new sculpts before ditching it fir the next big shiny. Those new Harpies looked so good
GW started doing shit with their IP outside of tabletops, which honestly gave them an edge that very few others have (Battletech does, although it doesn't have the same reach)
>>97354183>Invalidated modelsLiterally false, as legacy armies are allowed both to compete in Prime tournaments and are increasingly getting 3D print support>"B-but balance" and >>97354521Infernals fucked around so hard at the WTC that they got hit with light nerfs. They are competitive armies, and even in cases of super old shit like no-rules basic infantry Trollkin units, you can proxy those at your FLGS no problem. >Chonky printsFair. Personally I like then, but to each their own. Also some of the newer models like Old Umbrey are quite detailed. >mk3 ptsdGood thing that the people running the show at SFG are actual WTC fans and not PP monkeys. >MenothAlready teased, probably releasing early 2027 or late 2026.
What is your setting's game's tax policy in your game in your setting?
>>97335725>roads see a lesser amount of armed bands who could bandits>armed bands now traipse through the wilderness fighting outlaws and bandits who see it is less risk than facing the guards or armed trade caravans>armed bands eventually beat out efficient trail routes from village to village >kingdom places toll houses at the trailheads >tolls are used to support patrols and to improve the trails to roads>repeatWhy bother with quest rewards when you can trick adventurers to doing the work for free?
>>97343596What mods?
>>97335725I had some players execute a pair of guards for the audacity to ask for a toll of 5 gold. They had half a million.
>>97332525WH 1ed; PCs taxed entering Helmgard IIRC 1 pens per leg or wheel - this paid also leaving; entering inner zone (craftsmen) silver shilling per arm; top area needed gold crown per headthere will be likely war tax enacted in Empire, as PCs caused plague in Brettonia and failed Kemmer quest causing major shift in military forces there, making swamp frogs vulnerable to be invaded
>>97335725>detour through wildernessjust ramp up monsters encounters here
Besides Shadowdark, are there any other TTRPGs that have playable goblins?
>>97341430Funny how that guy who insists goblins must be ugly is nowhere to be found.
>>97351756That's what I like about cartooning. You can make stuff as cute or as ugly as you like. A lot of my male goblin faces tend to look the same, but there's no reason you can't give them more rounded faces or stubbier noses for a little variety.
>>97351756He is a homosexual, plain and simple. Everything he says is just windowdressing.
where the goblin femboys at?
>Dark elves exist to be evil elves>There's occasionally orcs that are noble savages rather than pillagers>Even dwarves have some evil equivalents like chaos dwarfs in warhammer and whatnotWhat would a "Dark" equivalent to gnomes be like? How do you corrupt a little jolly bearded man from the woods into something evil?
pretty sure Deep Gnomes are a thing in a few settings, and generally they're schizophrenic and disturbed by things that lurk in the deepest parts
>>97353846Gnomes are evil gnomes
>>97354009The Gnomes was published in 1977Paracelsus's gnomes have as much to do with modern fantasy gnomes as the dwarfs of the sagas have to do with Tolkien's dwarves"Gnome" has just become the standard English translation for a dozen different little guys from different European folklore
>>97353846Skaven.
>>97353846Or just look at what some of the worse fey were historically portrayed like and apply to the modern gnome shape.
It is the year 199X. Your friends have just sent you a text message to your Nokia 3210, saying they can't make tonight's D&D game.Which of these games do you play, to single-playerly experience that classic 'dungeon crawler' feel?
>>97353228Peripherally related, but damn was Morrowind a good game.
>>97348542Sure you'd text in 199x but only in the latter half, was still less common than just calling your friends' house
>>97344461Tomb Raider, because it's the one I actually have.
>>97347722>98, NOT being a 3D meant you were dated and shit-tier>Pokemon has entered the chat
>>97354383Oh you mean Pokiman Stadium?
What's a fun way to introduce NTR elements into my Eberron game?
>>97321552/tg/ thread generator back up and running I see.
Why Eberron ?
>>97321552Warforges w/ detachable penises....
>>97352261Penises (plural)? How can meatbag ever hope to compete?
>>97321552>fun way to introduce NTRyou sicko
>gameplayFor Centaurs, you should be able to use them as mounts when not in combat if they're lightly armed & armored. I think you could ride into battle with them and fight on their back without overburdening them, depending on your loadout. Squeezing into dungeons and caves might be a bit of a bitch, and your centaur companion may find themselves too cumbersome to accompany you in certain locations. If people in wheelchairs can make do, I'm sure a transmog potion or a shrinking potion might solve the problem.>fantasy settingsThey're more at home here for sure, like having a horse. Some taverns may give you a hard "no" for your centaur companion, but I'm sure regions that are steeped in centaur culture or adjacent ones have accommodations for their unique anatomy. If nothing else, they could help carry your camp supplies and other provisions. >loadouts for fantasyIf you're not riding them, I think they can be pretty well armed and armored- think tower shield and a mace/flail. They also make good spearmen, so I think they'd be comfortable wielding a halbard and similar pike-style weapons. This would be with them wearing plate mail cuirass for the human portion and chainmail curtain over their horse hind quarters, or perhaps some specially fitted Gambeson. Other plate sections could be fitted to their horse body as needed. Archery and crossbows seem like they'd work for ranged options. I've not considered them using magic, but having a fairly mobile spellcaster seems cool as well.
>>97344760like the ornamentation on the tail
>>97276299Reminder to keep the human and horse half appropriately proportioned.
>>97344760Looks great, like a coping Grecian's feverdream about dealing with Scythians.
>>97348360Thanks, it's like a big amalgamation of those early iron age iranic and turkic elements, bitches love their gold and harness
>>97289191No Shining Force enjoyers?
Work in Progress, "Nobody screws with the Tank Police!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97356747>WASPKino.
Managed to get sick, so I can finally start resupplying my basing mixes for the coming year.
>>97353731As anon said, it's a messy looking scheme. I suggest making the non-scale parts of the body stick out more so that it all sems deliberate. Paint the eyes in a brighter color so they don't look so shadowed and make the mouth, or at least the teeth, brighter. Mostly so there's a clear delineation of where parts begin and end.I would personally have gone with a more bronze looking metal if you're going to apply verdigris to it, but that's just me. Gold doesn't tarnish.
>>97351950Here we go, group shot so far. I don't really have any current setup that allows me to take a good pic of the lot, but overall I think they look nice.
RED or BLUE led?
Oh no no no
>>97346898>copeThe dark skin is usually described as being 'tan,' then again...>black temperamentAh man. They're goddamn gangbangers. >"Yo, LEMAAANN wez just capped dem foolz. Baller."Well, I guess Fenris being Space Detroit does make sense... In a way that the liberal writers would be very unhappy with. Fenris will be going through a rough patch since Imperial EBT is now gone.>"The Space Wolves only see 'bangin,' 'rappin,' and 'ballin' as a way off Fenris instead of civic duty and work.">-Rebolute 'get a job' Guilliman.
>>97346898>>97346941>Fenris >Literal Space DetroitAh man. I know Geedubs was desperately hoping for Blackrock money but this is hilarious. Goddamn. The Space Wolves are the ultimate product of Nig@synthesis, even bigger than the Hateocracy of Fenrisian legend.
Fenris was a spaceship making factory settled by... Eh... Let's call them 'Zero-G Ball Columbians.' As Columbian industries were increasingly contracted out to third galactic Grot worlds, Fenris became a mega slum as all the... Hmm... Let's call them 'Golden Men,' left for better planets leaving Fenris, or as it was known at the time: Obama, in the hands of its now unemployed workforce. When the Eldar Empire fell, Planet Obama fell into further irrelevance as what was left of Aeldari investments dried up so the planet became poor as fuck. Things got so bad even the Grot H1B holders weren't setting up scam call centers and the Stryxis 24/7 owners were tired of getting robbed so they took off. Then the Age of Strife happened and most of the population starved due to EBT and food stamps no longer being available resulting in a societal decline.
>>97327751It's ok all my salamanders are white, as in pale, rosey skin tone
>>97346941>>97346958No. Dark temperament means narcissistic, Machiavellian, and psychopathic.
why are many creators so afraid of making a setting with napoleonic wars era technology?
>>97328517Why do all those Algerians in France love him so much then?
the main problem that I see is that people are push the fantasy part to much to the sidelines and just try to make it too historical while not putting the same constrains on other types of fantasy just as an example, the irl medieval period was very different from what we watched in the Lord of the Rings, DnD is even more different in almost all aspects what is needed is first to get a setting that is to the period just like DnD/LotR is to the irl medieval period
>>97285005reminds me of that one thread a year ago or so about what a napoleonic warhammer would look like. 'Twas comfy.
>>97285005Evangeline Waltons novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is great and would make an ideal RPGThere is a skirmish wargame Silver Bayonet that I think works better as an RPG setting than a wargame
>>97351092Wasn't Warhammer Fantasy battles in the period, if not past it and heading toward WW1 tech? The Empire, Dwarfs, Kislev, Skaven and Chaos Dwarfs were all industrialising societies with access to mass firearms.
Do you include seasonal changes in your campaigns when time goes by?If so, what do you implement int the world to showcase the changing seasons?I personally include sea raiders who begin assaults on the kingdom's shores in spring and through summer, who then return to their homeland in fall to winter it out. So essentially a raiding season for my world's vikings, like in real history.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWc0DvoY6qw
>5E characters 100% heal after a night's restman their lives must be so exciting. one day you start adventuring, and in a month you've explored all the dungeons and killed hundreds of monsters. all those 'downtime activities' are like, a choice, you're not licking your wounds to regain 1 hit point per day.
>>97345120>The revolution/orbit of Earth doesn't determine seasonsI said that a longer revolution of the planet around its star would make them last longer.>>The planet needs to have a slower revolution around its star for seasons to last for years.>the axis doesThis was also not disputed. Higher axial tilt = more seasonal effects.>>Axial tilt determines the severity of the extremes the planet experiences in its seasons.You okay?
>>97345148>luckily i've never had a campaign last long enough in-world to worry about anything after summer.I find this funny, you can have a season change in a single session if you so desire, but for some reason most of you have never encountered it.
>>97348472STRICT TIME RECORDS MUST BE KEPT!but yeah, if you're of the mindset where D&D is more like a novel or film, you can do a "6 months later..." transition, cool. although i might get annoyed if it's just for the sake of "now we're doing a WINTER adventure!" like the world's natural order is just a dial being flicked around at random.(even narrativist/storygames guys must hate that shit.)
>>97353177I don't play D&D so I don't understand your problem.
>30 years>bestselling book series of all time>world's most famous fantasy setting>still no (official) tabletop RPGlolwut
>>97344959Amazing bait. So many anons fell for it.
>>97356418How does one get this good at baiting?
>>97353625Yeah, and then there's native wizards which surely had no qualms about spell usage in front of normies. USA (a country already filled with conspiracy theorists) is probably rife with a bunch of schizophrenics and theorists going on about a global wizard conspiracy. If the American wizards follow american culture at all though they'd probably be too individualist to live together.
>>97353489Nearly every non-ministry character you see in the book says the ministry is an inconvenience, even the good guys.
>>97356789>Nearly every non-ministry character you see in the book says the ministry is an inconvenience, even the good guys.Literally all 3 main characters get government jobs.
Could it work in a /tg/ context? Say you used the Damaging Objects rules from the d20 System.
...there was a single-player mode in this game?
>>97343823What do you mean by "work"?
>>97344210Why do you think it ports poorly?
>>97353484Because buildings don't tend to fight back, so designing encounters around attacking buildings rather than active enemies is sorta boring.Demolishing buildings can normally wait until all the enemy are dead, and if you have the resources, knowhow and unlimited time to work; rolling damage against the building is a pointless waste of time out of combat, and the DM should instead determine simply how long it takes.Abstracting a building's HP only makes sense if you are trying to destroy a structure while in combat with actual enemies, where time would be of the essence, or a particular piece of building collapsing could be used to your advantage.However, if you have enough firepower to level a building, chances are you're better off applying it directly to the target, assuming a D&D-like game.Rules for destroying terrain are best used for wargames, particularly ones with modern-ish or futuristic warfare, rather than roleplaying games, where the crunch is quicker and dirtier, and effects like units being trapped in a collapsing building are likely to be relevant.That and in a tabletop RPG there's nothing stopping a competent DM from just eyeballing when a building needs to collapse, or a bridge give way for the purposes of narrative, or by rudimentary common sense.I mean, if the purpose of your campaign is beating up terrain instead of monsters then you do you.
>>97344262We know. Have you ever been in a game of DnD where the fighter has an adamantine warhammer?
Finman edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97357380Thank Christ I won't ever be a woman, but you won't ever be a man either, faggot.
>>97357420Nice projection, anon, you dont have to chop off your dick?
>>97357431It's intact and working well, just ask your mother.
>>97356952Giant chose their last names after they waken from their namesleep.
New thread>>97353999>>97353999>>97353999
2026 Edition!Since a lot of the links were duds in last year's thread, I've decided not to post them. If anyone has suggestions for the OP moving forward, feel free to share.>What is this thread?A place to share your armies from any and all war/skirmish games.Though it's increasingly a lost art, /your dudes/ has been the lifeblood of wargaming and especially skirmish games for a while now...let's keep the dream alive!Bonus points for org charts, livery, lore, and especially any pics of models in action!>Thread QuestionsWhat are /your dudes/ bad at?When was the last time /your dudes/ touched a table?What do you plan to do with /your dudes/ in the new year?I'll begin.>The Athonian 33rd is absolutely dogshit at trench / frontline warfareThey struggle horribly with holding open ground and dealing with anti-air, relying heavily on fellow Imperial factions to buttress them in this.>My boys got their debut in a Dark Heresy game run by a friendTo my pride they managed to not only die in droves like standard guard, but have pulled off some impressive feats in the course of the campaign. They even were the relief forces when the party got caught in a Black Hawk Down type crash in the middle of Ork-infested territory.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97339407>>97339420This is great! I miss this sort of guardfaggery.
>>97338307A couple years ago my friends and I put together a Kill Team Campaign all based around Vraks. As the resident Alpha Legion fanboy I took the role of The Faithless, the Alpha warband involved in the conflict.Although I had to sell them during a move, they hold a really special place in my heart, in part for being what I bet will be the last time I get to use bits from the old Chaos Marines box since they're out of production.TQs:>What our /your dudes/ bad atMy guys gained a reputation for having heinous bad luck streaks, notably one where a distraction grot managed to survive an ungodly number of attacks all from the same Legionnaire. This evolved in our shared lore to the Kill Team having a 'blessing' from Tzeentch that was sort of like one of those really awful JoJo stands that just make your life suck or kill you.>When was the last time they touched a tableThat I can confirm? 2023. But I'm hopeful someone is still playing with them out there after I sold them to my LGS.>What do you plan to do with them in the new year?Miss them, mostly. But I'm hopeful that I can start hobbying again by the end of the year, in which case maybe I can kitbash up some successors.
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>>97338307Oh, holy shit, it's back! Had been hoping for this to make a return.>What are /your dudes/ bad at?They've gotten into some serious shituations with sunk cost fallacy. It's probably the IW geneseed.>When was the last time /your dudes/ touched a table?Crucify me, anon, for the answer is 'never'. I rolled them up on the 1d4chan tables in '15, then they sat on the back shelf of my brain until a really good brainstorming session last year in which the majority of their lore was spitballed.>What do you plan to do with /your dudes/ in the new year?I plan to finalize their name, give them a color scheme, and flesh out their primary opposing force (it's orks) and the surrounding subsector.So far I have:>Adamant Sons (name pending)>Founded for: Crusade>During: M35, 14th-20th founding>Progenitor: Traitor Legion or Unknown>Gene-seed: Pure>Demeanor: Purity Above AllComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353454>cont.Now I figure this is probably because a very minor Eldar craftworld, who I also need to invent, consulted their own future-telling folks, and decided "It's important that we go on this heading to prevent some form of unknown and unnamed disaster." This heading conveniently intercepted the Adamant Sons' (name pending) and they had a grand old firefight amidst a gathering warp storm. Aforementioned Heroic Action snapped the spine of the craftworld, which let out a bunch of souls or something similarly warpy, supercharging the storm and casting all ships involved into the depths of unreality.Then they got shat out in scattered, slapdash fashion in a doldrums system which just so happened to have a gas giant (what I rolled up for their homeworld) with a gigantic orbital belt of highly advanced DAOT orbital manufactorums (representing the shitload of archaeotech I rolled)... and the orks, who had also been shat out in said doldrums, and were burning hard for the shiny new gubbins.Now the threat that both divinations had seen became clear. If these orks were permitted to secure the system, it would become the industrial hub of a brand new Ullanor - and nobody wants a second War of the Beast. So the Adamant Sons (name pending) have been fighting said orks for control of the system ever since.
