Thread #02 Lean Winter on the TundraPrevious Thread: >>97090196Welcome to /un0/, an RP thread for playing a World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness Hunter. For any OOC questions about WoD/CofD, check the official general. >>97224887Rules:>We are acephale. There is no storyteller, we are not a quest.>This thread is based primarily but not exclusively in the nWoD/CofD game Hunter: the Vigil. However, Vigil is defined by being highly setting agnostic, with a system for creating entirely custom monsters that do not exist in other WoD/CofD games. Thus, you have significant freedom in what you want to play and what you want to hunt. Feel free to play a member of the Society of Leopold, or a member of the Lucifuge hot on the tail of a Lasombra.>Namefagging is encouraged but by no means mandatory.>Keep in mind that even highly experienced Hunters typically only have fractured pieces of the puzzle, and every table has their own canon. The night is dark and full of misinformation.>/un0/ is conceived of as an experimental end to end encrypted program that is very hard to compromise, retains very little data and purges that data regularly. Please play an actual Hunter.>Spoiler any OOC discussion.Happy hunting. Unless this thread somehow takes off like a rocket, this will be the last un0 thread for the foreseeable future. Towards the end of the thread, please give your feedback in regard to these shorter, limited run RP threads.
>>97238206>more delirious accounts involve beautiful wingsYeah, I don't think they count as a reliable source
Merry Christmas, /un0/
Merry Christmas (even you, Mr Degenerate)! Plenty of cash for all your weapon and equipment needs!
Merry Christmas friends. May your feasts be filling and supplies well stocked.
Merry Christmas lads. Nice way to round out the year.>>97238642I doubt I'll be getting up to any of my own exploration anyway but that does sound like an interesting experience.
Love Wins Edition>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<Previous Thread: >>97099515 /pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<TQ: What is your favorite pantheon? What pantheon(s) would you want implemented/updated?
Lore question. So pharasma is trying to groom the next survivor but why? Is the next survivor supposed to be stronger than her? What causes the universe to end cause it seems to be a cycle of sorts? Are the outer gods responsible?
>>97240234>options are>>groom a successor so there IS a next cycle>>no next cycle because no successorIt's a mystery
>>97240234I get the feeling she's probably tied to only being able to jump universes once for whatever reason, or maybe she feels like it's selfish for her to be the only one to ever get that chance.
>>97237584They could have worked lores in general into something usable but chose not to
>>97240364Arazni. It’s going to be Arazni. They’ve given her too much lore for anyone else.
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
>>97237861Open access actually dates back to five years ago. So, not the greatest margin, but not entirely out of the question for people who were teenagers at the start of that cycle.
>>97235698isn't OSE super deadly like all the other OSR and NSR games?
>>97239031Only if players are actively being stupid.
>>97240259but OP is asking for 4e and that edition got made for people who want to revel in violence. so acting stupid. i don't think OSE would be a good fit for that
>>97237714The Rules Compendium is a better purchase than the Heroes of books. It came out a few months after the first Essentials books and its literally just all the rules and charts from the PHBs all errata'd up.Still suffers from being an Essentials book so it's smaller with larger print than the original books and so its not particularly page efficient. God I hate how Essentials fucked up book size and formatting.
In my games, high level wizards turn to stone.
>>97230372Because that way you die from getting clocked in the head with a lead tile from the gable end of a temple roof, that's covered in apotropaic ciphers.Or infected with mummy rot via a letter doused with necromantic gack.
>>97195417Carians kicked you out kek
>>97235260they left voluntarily
>>97195417Hehehehe that's an ELO song
>>97195417What are some potential consequences specific to each element? Like I can see flame wizards looking like their flesh is charred and burned for example.
I refuse to believe Halo Flashpoint is even a 10th as successful as Mantic claims. In terms of online, easy to find metrics it has:3100 people as part of its sub(P)reddit.2100 or so people as part of Facebook Groups.No one discussing it on Twitter gets many likes/comments/retweets.No one big or well known talks about/plays it on Youtube.Yet it's one of the fastest growing and more popular tabletop games to come out recently?I don't buy it.I don't hate the system, but I am baffled by Mantic's ability to get away with lying about how successful this game is.
>>97237885The second most common complaint about H:GC (after it not being in 28mm) was that the gameplay didn't resemble the videogames.I also think making a tabletop game based on the multiplayer was stupid, but it was kinda what people wanted.
MFW I learned it's basically a tabletop recreation of a multiplayer match. I mean, I always figured it was a given players would want to do whole squads and armored vehicles etc.
>>97239294>Roll for mission>Roll for deployment>Setup>Roll for first turn>Opponent finds rocket launcher+sword+jump pack>I find a needler and smg.>Concede the game.
>>97238770I wish fleet battles and ground combat to come back with the same models and scale.
>>97239294For Spartan v Spartan it's the only thing that makes sense. Although there's nothing stopping them squads and combined arms in the MP simulations either.>>97236626Nobody gives a shit about NuHalo
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97237317Here is my attempt at a glitterboy. The head was made by cutting up a picture of the glitter boy head and stretching then inpainting. Then I realized the shoulders of the US-G10 is like a curved surfboard and looks terrible.
>>97237330And this one is without the shoulder cannon so it can be shopped for the japanese variants at a later date.
>>97237314I should note, whenever I think of crazies or corpos in Cyberpunk I always thought of this guy.
>>97237314>>97237317>>97237330>>97237336>>97237352Nice, nice, but I don't know who the last guy is.
Merry RIFTSmas
How has a wife/girlfriend joining the group affected your games?
>>97223515Bodied that freak.
>>97223311>TQMixed bag. My wife is a good roleplayer and tends to help keep the group focused, and is great at working through puzzles and such. She refuses to read the rulebooks for any system though, so usually I end up having to help her with more crunchy mechanics and interactions. An overall improvement to the group for sure.On the other hand, my buddy's wife fits the "wife brought along to RPG night" stereotype to a T. She's friendly and all but doesn't so much as make her own character and loses interest in favor of her phone very quickly and semi-regularly derails the group. Definitely the kind of person who is only there because she wants to spend time with her husband rather than because she has any real interest in RPG's.
>>97223311I have never had an overall positive experience with a female player.Which regrettably is not for lack of trying. I'm glad that others have had better experiences, but I won't be giving it another shot.
>>97223515Bodied that freak
>>97228148okay pajeet don't you have a Poop festival to get to?
Do you prefer systems with a strict class-based martial/caster division or classless systems that allow anyone to dip into anything at the cost of never being great at it?
>>97239160>I'll go a step further. The dynamics of builds in any system should be that in a solo single-class build should be worse than a solo multi-class build,That is a stupid take designed to pander to competitive multi-classing optimizers. A Fighter 5/Barbarian 5/Ranger 5/Paladin 5 should not be a better Fighter than a Fighter 20. In a truly well built system solo class builds and synergestic multi-class builds should be equally viable with comparable power.
>classesbro is posting from 1975 LOL
>>97239948Ok, I'm actually curious if there's a script that cuts posts that mention Candlejack in half or is it just anons' collective joke.
>>97241356It's a memetic reference to a joke used in the 90s cartoon Freakazoid that predict a lot about how things turned out on the internet.
>>97234704You are either nogames, or the despised DM who leads just because nobody else would.You sound like a reddit moderator on a power trip. Your entire post is disgusting.
I feel like this edition has alot of objectively bad things about it and is absolutely where the alot of worst qualities of current editions showed up. But I feel like I prefer playing this edition compared to a lot of previous editions and 10th edition. Its a weird transitional period where there's still a lot of the old units that haven't been legended yet while still having the fucking Primaris lot. Its strange but I don't feel like I'm missing out on much staying on this edition and playing with friends casually instead of going back to playing the current edition.
>>971861088th wasn't the best but it was the last edition worth playing. The accompanying edition of Kill Team that used a lot of its core rules and datasheets was nice for the sake of homebrew and modularity as well.
>>97223256That's why I said dial back the bullshit.
>>97186108It was the last time 40k was actually funIt was a long needed refresh especially after the clusterfuck 6th and 7th had become but it created a trend of dumbifying the game and making it all catered towards the "competitive" gameplayIt was the middle ground in between 40k falling into two extremes>6th-7th where the entire game revolved around cheesing the fuck out of it>9th-10th where the entire game revolves around buying the strongest list in the current meta that shifts every other monthMy younger brother and I still occasionally play it to this day
>>97223263I mean visually and tonally they are crap
>>97241743meant for>>97238785
Which one do you recruit and why?
>>97227968>Plot Twist: The new pope is secretly an evil necromancer bent on becoming a demilich
>>97240485>Church evilA bit overdone.
>>97226577Whichever lets me play the penguin
>>97226577Nuns. For making battle nuns and anal with said repressed battlenuns. I understand anal is an option with the guys too, just not into that.
>>97226577>Which one do you recruit and why?I would hire Archimandrite
I’m running a low fantasy game, and social advancement is gonna be a thing. So the PCs are gonna be rubbing elbows with a lot of noble families as they make their way into high society. I’m just asking for NPCs and ideas.Most of the nobility are humans, but a few are half-elves and halflings.
Any families/NPCs y’all can come up with?
>>97236881Area: The Eastmarch (that is, the border region in the east)Family: House of AthalSeat of power: New Athaka (minor town, 3 associated fortified positions). Head of the house: margrave Boskas AthalOrigin: the eastmarch was conquered from the [insert enemy here] by the previous generation. The land was mostly settled by soldiers from that war. The margrave Boskas of Athal is a distinguished veteran of that war, known for having led a band of 250 men to keep the enemy from breaking through at [not Thermopylae] and thus granting time for the main army to circle the mountain and destroy the enemy forces.Those who volunteered that day and live are the minor knights (about 70) who settled the region as pioneers. For his service, margrave Athal was pledged ownership of the lands around the mountains. He now holds those lands against raiders and incursions by the previous owners. Economy: sheep, logging and limited mining. The mountains contain some iron, and the rivers that flow down the mountains allow for logging works and wool production alike to use river transport towards the nearby free city of [Whatever]. Military situation: the region is filled with veterans and their offspring. Few question the authority of the margrave. He has taken two fortresses, and built another at the site of [not Thermopylae] to round out the defense. While the fortresses and their garrisons are costly, the economy is somewhat bolstered by the newly forming cultivation of the land and trade with the nearby free city. Politics: the free city is split between excitement over the economic opportunities, and the fear of such a powerful military force on their doorstep.The original inhabitants are mostly glad to be freed of the previous owners, but have many gripes about ownership and rights as they used to be free tribes before the enemy rolled in. The margrave lacks funding, and hopes to secure it with either the crown or the free city.
>>97233040You can have one extra peasant-y peasant who demonstrates why the nobility really do look down on people who haven't been trained in the proper ways to talk and behave.And an impoverished noble who had to let all his house staff go and is pretending he didn't.And give them manners and airs so even if a noble became as poor as a peasant and had to sell his last estate, they'd still feel superior to people born and raised peasants.
>>97233040Probably a military officer with noble blood. That's the kind of nobility adventurers would have the most dealings with. Maybe some provincial governor or duke who either gave out the mission or is scheming something.
Take a look at Houses of the Blooded.
Thread #006 Dark Imperial Blood EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97129837Previous Thread>>97024850Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97239427>That sculpture is not.1. It's in Austria, but that's not the reason your girlfriend posted it.2. The god of thresholds, of doors, is blocking the path of the goddess of war. "This is not the time for war."3. She's about to hit him with her bloody flagellum, the one Virgil mentions in the Aeneid, to make him get out of her way.4. Do you see what Princess Charming did there?
You guys have probably seen those comments, tweets, blogs, emails, replies, etc, with bible verses or "THE LORD WILL TAKE THEE" or some other religious screeching on pretty much every website you've ever used.You probably thought that was some crazy old lady, or maybe an automated spambot, or at weirdest some kind of hunter or maybe even some malk. But it's not. Most of those actually come from me.You're probably imagining I'm nuts, maybe a noddist or some neurotic weirdo, but I'm not.I just really, really hate infernalists. And so I put those everywhere I can so they see it. I hate them so much that I want to ruin their nights, as often as I can, through any means available.Christ is king. Merry Christmas. Fuck you baali.
>>97239474>Do you see what Princess Charming did there?She thinks a war is coming and that's the reason she jumped at the opportunity for a little trip back to Italy. Time is money, as they say in Wall Street.
>>97239474Smart man. You could have made a superb Ventrue, or a Girl Toy.
>>97241639If and only if you and Blue Fairy both come back from Italy in one piece each, I'll share the single most embarrassing memory of my unlife.
find inner peace
>>97239114Confirmed low IQ game.Solved games are always trash.
>>97239124Not really. Checkers are solved, but most people won't bother (or aren't able) to reach computer-level cognition in order to play perfect move every time, meaning you can play a decent match anyway.I didn't play Mancala even once in my life, but I assume a similar situation applies here.
>>97239124Confirmed low IQ poster.Doesn't know only kalah version has been solved.
>>97241564You are correct. The game is simpler for six holes each side with four stones each or with five stones each but with six stones each the game is very difficult for a human to follow perfect play. There is no human implementable version of an algorithm for six stone kalah that guarantees the first player win that the solution states exists for perfect play.
What are the best games for a Catholic gentleman?
>>97239285I didn't know troons are catholic? Maybe gentlemen though.
>>97239279>World of Darkness(new and old).You can play Hunter without the gnostic themes and it works even better.Though I'd say Yahweh in WoD isn't quite Demiurge levels of evil, he's just how he is in the old testament in that he is morally just but lacking in mercy.
>>97239183I've never played it myself but Pendragon is basically the definitive RPG of good Christian boys. There is also Wolves of God by Kevin Crawford which I never played but its also a very Christian themed RPG
>>97239183Demon: The Fallen & Kill Puppies for SatanIt's exactly what you think it is.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:>n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97239826merry Christmas!
>>97227101i take the other anon's point, this *might* skew a bit 'artpunk', buthttps://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/blog dedicated to monster art. plenty of weird and wonderful vintage illustrations.
>>97239871meri kurisumasu minna
>>97238426I got a Tarot deck I can use to expand my randomization options.
>>97227101I like bits of Fire on the Velvet Horizon. Mace didn't do it as monster stats but it does have neat art. idk man I've got 273 files in my bestiary folder, I can pick one and find neat looking monsters as needed.
