Santa Claus just entered your game. Has your group been naughty or nice this year?
>>97254651What the fuck does this have to do with anything? The important questions are: does he want to play and does he know the rules?
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What the fuck is up with Benko players online? I play the Half-Accepted variation where instead of accepting the second pawn you go e3 instead. I have heard that this can be a bit annoying to Benko players - well fucking tough. But it's like they make every move in like 1-3 seconds and end the game usually with 2 minutes on the clock. Is it supposed to be some kind of intimidation? Is it they really hate the e3 variation? Do they just know where they want to put their pieces immediately, even though I win more than Iose against this type of person? Is it that it's a bunch of kids playing the Benko? Like what is going on? I wish I could say I don't let it affect me but it is offputting, this feeling like there's someone on meth at the other end. First few moves obviously is fine, still in opening theory, but this relentless speed and aggressive play also, do they think they will end with 2 minutes on the clock and everyone will applaud at this magnificent player? It's just offputting. Chess is supposed to be a relaxing game. Genuinely curious if anyone knows anything about this. See a little of it in KID also.
>>97255113They probably watched one of those clickbait videos about it.
>>97252564Cute chessfu bro!
>>97255632Very qt face but completely waxed arms, I checked. :(
>>97255632>>97255706Check the new girl from Russia in the FIDE flikr gallery, Diana Preobrazhenskaya: she scored 7 points in the rapid tournament (more than Ju Wenjun).
Thoughts on this man?
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>>97155727Voice actors are also not celebrities.
>>97150745cute dog
>>97248051The shocking truth is that acting like first-timer retards is the whole point. If you were paid to promote X thing, and some uninformed new potential customer happens to wander into your show at a random episode and is immediately hit with a confusing amount of rules and jargon, they're going to be scared off and your sponsor is going to be pissed that you lost them a new revenue source. They don't care to learn the rules of the game because they're instructed to explain the rules ad nauseam to catch up people who might be tuning in for the first or second time.
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I love minis and so should you :)post your favorite minis or minis that you think are terrible
>>97248841>I kinda dislike your painting.LOL! 1. Disliking it is the point. 2. It's not *MY* painting.
>>97167455What are these? They look great.
And painted.
>>97232522>Ronald Necronald
If we're posting terrible minis in here, McEwan is a showstopper. https://www.tin-soldier.com/mmlanding.html
After about 8 years since I last DM'ed a game, I've been asked to run a session. Unfortunately my books - adnd, 2e, 3e, 3.5, 4e, and 5e are in storage two states away.And i prefer physical copies. Thanks to critical role and the movie DND books have gone up in price which is weird.>4e books are ~10-15$ now. Is it viable to run 4e in 2025? I don't remember hating it and I still remember some home rules to streamline combat to speed it up a touch. Does anyone have suggestions for 1-3lvl adventures or campaign settings? >4e thread I guess
>>97255815*Mage is the most notable exception because it arguably scales BETTER than the core Wizard even when you take its normally assigned Paragon Path. Slayer can also keep up if built for charge cheese and your DM is kind with items to get your build trucking. Thief can also charge cheese into Epic but not as well.
>>97255806>Dragonborn were the defacto Paladin raceThat's a good point. Either or works honestly. But yeah, you can tell they tried to make race/class combos with the books.
>>97255672They actually talked about this is the Wizard's Presents 4th Edition books. While the other anons are correct on the Race/Class combo thing there were other reasons. Tieflings replaced Gnomes because Gnomes were wildly unpopular and Tieflings, at least on the D&D forums (rip in peace), were insanely popular. Like more popular than Elves. So they got the slot. Dragonborn were more of "We keep getting emails about playing a dragon in Dungeons and DRAGONS so we made sure there were dragon people in the first book so we could say yes" and they didn't want to double up on warrior races so Half Orcs got nudged to be with Barbarian in PHB2.
>>97254633To be fair to Runepriest, what it got was pretty good. It just didn't get enough.
>>97256142Runepriest mostly suffered from the "taxes" issue. He handed out like double the amount of gribbly little bonuses of every other Leader while completely lacking the positioning or action granting of others. They did have an interesting gimmick where their "heal" could be spent to not heal and instead just give the buff if you wanted to alpha strike hard and not spend surges.Also one of the builds being Str/Con. Gross. Serene Blade should have been the standard design ideal of all the Runic Artistries instead of the later fixed one. Really it shouldn't have been a Strength class. Wis or Con should have been its primary with finding a way to slip Int in there as a Secondary so it wouldn't be so bad at Religion for flavor reasons.
>leather armor>studded leather armor
>5e is implied
>reddit cat>inane hypothetical
>low effort shitpostThere are historical examples of both in pretty much any museum you would care to visit :/
Gygax confirmed he meant brigandine. it's just another modern/fantasy term, same way characters don't have cotes and maille.
>ten years ago>meet random GM over Roll20 of all places>says he wants to run a PBP weeb game where you collect waifu team and go fight shit>eh why not, can't be worse than all these terrible games I played or these god awful players I GM'd that made me quit GMing>throw an application that isn't complete shit so he invites me over>chat a bit, find out we have some things in common>we both like history, dynasty warriors, rance, final fantasy, zero no tsukaima, warhammer fantasy, etc etc>world is built with all of this combined in some autistic smorgasburg mix of everything we both like>despite what sounds like a recipe for a terrible game it's actually fun as fuck>combat is challenging and every move I make can end me>lots of plotting and scheming to build myself an army>good roleplay with characters that have a shit ton of personality >go through a shit ton of interesting plotlines and quests >also, lots and lots of waifus>play through a full 1 year long gameComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97247729>retirementHa!Imagine thinking we're going to retire before we get cancer or an hero ourselves.
>>97247523Let’s be real. Most likely he didn’t ghost you. He probably died.
>>97249577So basically what I assumed. And this transience is one of the reasons I don't use discord.
>>97250099It could be worse. IIRC, depending on your country of origin, it's 2-3 years or so of inactivity before they blast your account. Given that things like Discord are usually used with great frequency by its users, like many other social media platforms, it would be pretty unusual for someone to completely stop using it for actual years. Generally, they would either have completely given up on the platform, been unable to use it for some reason (perhaps imprisonment), or deceased.
>>97249612Yeah this is the most likely outcome unfortunately. Even friends who are deep in wage slavery will still check in once in a while. If he trooned out and liked you he would have said something.
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>>97257375It's an edit, based on the famous Rape Horse meme from Berserk.
>>97257334See the easiest solution is to print more than one answer. Not print NO answers. Then players/STs can pick & choose or just be inspired by the content. Its why D&D has multiple game settings, its why the End Times had a dozen scenarios.
>>97257397Well, when he's given almost exclusive control over a new edition, with just a little oversight from werewolf-hating Karim, the outcome is a disconnected mess of a setting so full of unknowns that people just default to filling the holes with information that the previous edition supplied. That's the outcome of being so pissed off at lore lovers that you gut most of the lore from your games.
>>97255778>>97255712Based anons, thank you.
>>97257441Honestly, the complete misreading of the Get situation and the renaming of the tribes but Red Talon is completely unchanged except for accepting a few humans now and then is the type of meme shit that makes me assume these guys just want to enforce their vision more than make something interesting. I agree with anons take that corporations love skinsuits, why bother doing "sequels" if they're going to be extremely disconnected with any of the cool atmospheric shit that made the setting interesting anyway?
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>>97251652you are like 5 days late anon
>>97251747Whoops!
>>97245061DivineZ will be kino status if he punches evil!Gab just like this at the end.
Remember this? what happened. It was supposed to be the next big thing, but all of a sudden I only hear about Lorcana and One Piece.
>>97242868The did happen. They even had backdrops and props to trigger those effects. The real problem was it was infested with investors meaning once they left they didn't have any money. One of its biggest investors a rapper convinced them to do cyrpto.
>>97242821>>97242868I bought two starter decks and a bunch of booster packs for absurdly cheap (somewhere in the ballpark of 90% off) last year because a FLGS was trying to clear out their stock. If I can find someone stupid enough to play with me I'll give the game a fair try some day.
>>97242821it WAS big, then faded, pretty normalNow sorcery is its successor
>>97242821>card game about cryptids>generic "you are a sorcerer summoning monsters" backdrop>generic spell cards like "fire ball" or "cold mist">a million different equip items that are all pretty much worse than just playing a spell>regular ass lands like "ocean" or "forest" and like 12 different categories of themThis game was maybe 1/4 baked at best>>97242868Oh yeah how could i forget, basically every card is a massive wall of text and 90% of the """meta effects""" were "wear a silly thing". Oh and there was a limit on meta items you were allowed to use, and combo items counted as seperate things, so if you need something orange on the table and a plant in your FoV, bringing a pumpkin counts as 2 items.
>>97243217It's crazy, card games are perfect for monster catching. Each booster pack is like running through the tall grass and getting wild encounters.
maps and mapmaking. more specifically, there's something that's been bothering me for a while now. There are endless skirmish-scale settlement-scale and topographic-scale square grid mapmaking tools online, and that's great. There's plenty of topography-scale hexgrid mapmakers too, presumably because of D&D's ancient use of hexgrids for overland travel. and that's great too. There arent many hexmakers ive found for settlement scale maps, but i've had some luck torturing them out of the battletech mapmaker in the megamek software, or other videogames that generously offer to print the outputbutfor the life of me i cannot find a decent skirmish-scale hexgrid mapmaker. i must have tried a dozen programs by now, but the ones that offer hexgrids are either borderline unuseable or just put a hexagonal overlay over a square grid. it's ridiculous that after decades of computer tools for TTRPGS the best i've found is GIMP where i have to draw the damn things by hand. Not to mention the endless enshitification of google makes it harder and harder to find niche programs to match what i need.what are you anons using to create your maps?do you know of any decent skirmish-scale hexmappers (that are free, or at least worth the price)?what do you think of maps in general, do you even use them?i'll share any spare maps i have within the size limit to get the ball rolling
>>97251565>we need you to pay to use our softwareoka->monthy on one of two subscription packages>also we need your email if you want to try the demo>its online only, you cant download itsell me on this. does it have options to snap walls to the hex grid? how many terrain options do i have, can it flexibly do building interiors? it looks good from what you've done, but everything about its marketing and distribution model makes it seem like a piece of shit. i already have free (bad) hexgrid makers, i dont want to waste time signing up for something else that wont work right
>>97253324There's a free version. I used free for years before I decided I was getting enough out of it, every week, to start paying for it. The free version is good. The paid version is better.I was just curious whether you understood that the tool you're asking for already exists. Inkarnate has been pretty good for about 10 years. Yeah it's got free draw, hex versions, lots of textures and brushes... it's good. There's a reason it's most of the maps you see on /tg/.
>>97253459No man, come on. Dont just give me the same PR sales pitch in the website. I can see it has a hexgrid overlay and freedraw, but even MS paint has that if you try hard enough. What i need is hex snapping options that arent masochistic to use, but are flexible enough to still make square buildings if nesessary
>>97244969Kino.
>>97244264I love this stuff. I wish it was easier to find games with mapmaking tools, I'm sure there are plenty out there with great tilesets for battle maps.
Then an executive saw the K-pop movie Demon Hunters and decided it was a good idea to adapt it into Dungeons and Dragons.Opinions?
>>97254978>It's because of the convenience factor of having itIt isn't any more convenient than the thing that allegedly does everything. The seller just wants to take advantage of recency bias.>Because they're lazy and because they want toK. But they still already have what they're buying, so that refutes nothing.Cry about it harder as you hang yourself, shitskin. I'm done with your loser ass.
>>97255681>Give me the answer to my question!>n-n-no, not like that! Reeeeeeeee!Pathetic.
Nothing more pathetic than a shill who can't properly justify the existence of his worthless and redundant product.
>>97255722Dude, it's a third party sourcebook blatantly trying to cash in on a trend that's going to be on kickstarter of all places. Of course its existence is redundant and pointless. The fuck were you expecting? The cure to cancer? Do you even play tabletop games, or just whine on reddit and /tg/ all day?
>>97247473>>OSR K-Pop Idols>If you all wipe you restart in a system about gambling and doing porn.
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>>97257213Also nta, but I tend to assume shitposting when the negativity doesn't seem to have any purpose beyond fucking with someone. Not liking someone or their work doesn't really matter in a vacuum for example. So when I see people saying stuff like "haha, your run/build/whatever is shit" and that's the whole post, I assume shitpost. I can see a negative post and think it's not a shitpost if there's more to the post, whether it's actually thoughtful critique, a serious attempt to offer a better alternative, etc. I might still think they're an idiot or an asshole depending on the exact content, but that's not shitposting per se.I guess another way to put it, would be that shitposting is when an anon is venting their frustrations or trying to provoke a reaction with their post, and I personally identify that by a lack of substance in the post that could suggest any other motives.
>>97257310>So when I see people saying stuff like "haha, your run/build/whatever is shit" and that's the whole post, I assume shitpost.Here's your problem. That's just a meaningless post, beyond the idea that someone CAN take the critique if you could call it that and keep it in their mind going forward.There are two types of shitposts: ones meant to entertain and ones meant to annoy. They could hybridize at times, but either way, they poke fun at something. A build/MP getting called shit isn't a shitpost, just an irrelevant one. If someone writes a meanspirited writefag or greentext humiliating the build, THAT'S a shitpost. Shitposts, ironically, have some level of effort to them.
>>97257310Shitposts are inherently jokes/dumb/absurd so if you call someone calling something shit them shitposting it just makes it seem like you don't believe anyone can genuinely dislike the thing being insulted in particular. Comes off as even more faggy than the random insults in question.
Could any of our builds in any MP beat Mr. Popo?
>>97257533Absolutely not. Even magical bullshit like immunities and polymorphing wouldn't work against Popo because he can simply overpower whatever you throw at him through sheer Z warrior scaling.
>In the game Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the Garou (werewolves) were made to defend the earth from the cosmic forces that threaten to tear it apart. The Garou fight against the Wyrm, the destroyer. It is a struggle against nearly insurmountable odds, especially considering the rivalry between many tribes. These rivalries make it almost impossible for the werewolves to present a unified front against a cosmic force that pervades reality.>From this morass of hatred and mutual betrayal, there is little hope that the Garou can emerge triumphant against a foe so well armed as the Wyrm. The Wyrm promises money, power, sex, and whatever else the heart desires to its followers while the Garou receive no reward for their striving. It drives them deeper and deeper into despair, or into betrayal so deep that they choose to serve the Wyrm instead.Main Rulebooks:>Werewolf: The Apocalypse Rulebookhttps://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse_Rulebook>Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Editionhttps://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse_Second_Edition>Werewolf: The Apocalypse Revised Editionhttps://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse_Revised_Edition>Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Editionhttps://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse_20th_Anniversary_Edition>Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition Corebookhttps://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse_5th_Edition_CorebookComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97248307Christ, that is bad.>>97248274>Christian WerewolvesFunniest shit sometimes.
>>97044676>WerewolvesOh, how I've waited for this day.
>>97249591>Christian Werewolves
>>97250124Chevalier is such a weird one. Anyway, isn't this guy like a turbo rapist or something and that's why he's in hell? Kind of based though. Wish I could read some of these comics getting posted without going through 15 billion sketchy sites or paying an arm and a leg
>>97250124I don't know if I have ever identified more closely with a werewolf in my entire life.
I have wanted to play RPGs for years and posted on /tg/ for like a decade, but have never found someone to play with. Finally my kids are old enough to play with me, but the problem is, I don't know HOW to play. Like, what is a game supposed to even look like? All the rulebooks I've read go over in depth the character creation and mechanics, etc. but none really paint a picture of the structure and flow of the game and what it is supposed to look like. Where do I start??
>>97253357iirc there are significant differences in terms of dungeon generation tables. Tends to have a lot more monsters than other systems and the treasure tables are quite different as well. Seems initially low concern but ends up changing the gameplay loop enough it's worth being aware of.
>>97253357you can get most of the benefits of Basic Fantasy as outlined in >>97253440 in B/X by playing Old School Essentials. The advanced rulebook also adds rules for race and class separation
>>97249513>video game boardAh I see what your problem is now >>>/v/
>>97253440Lower ordinal being better is very common place in English1st place better than 2nd in competitions1st class superior to 2nd in mail and travel1st rate ships bigger and better armed than 2ndpH 1 more acidic than pH 2pH -1 is slightly more get that crap the fuck away from me than pH 0Apparent magnitude −26.832 brighter than −12.74Even before the Cold War was nominally over 3rd world was misconstrued to mean low standard of living and not just not aligned with Easter or Western bloc>Pros: ascending ACSo with lower better being common place, are you making that claim solely on the basis of brainlets and>hurr... subtracting negative is hardor is there some actual reason ascending AC is better?
>>97249229>I don't know HOW to play. Like, what is a game supposed to even look like?You start with a single scene, go through it like you where reading a book or playing a game, if a conflict comes up resolve it using the games rules that will usually involve rolling dice in some capacity. Maybe look into a rules light game where "rules as written" aren't such a big priority, consider one page games which will be easy to learn and teach your group one such game I like is "fudge in a nutshell" see: https://files.catbox.moe/p8ch99.pdf
