Im going to make a ttrpg book, but i've never played a single game. I know its a poor idea, but i will do it either way. Do you have any advice on how to make it less shit? Anything i should avoid or focus on?
>>96699470>accentuate simplicity and immersion during the developmentThat's a common misconception, but actually gamism and crunch are objectively the most important
>>96699484The majority of people who play them do so for social reasons and those who do so are barely literate more often than not. Otherwise people would just play AD&D or something more complex and be fine with it.
>>96699541The vast majority of people are playing d&d. You've already failed if your target audience is the lowest common denominator, an indie game HAS to lean into its inherent niche status. That includes accepting that all playstyles are equal.
>>96697756That is a dogshit ideaA good ttrpg system is a set of tools for the dm and players to use to make the gameThey could do anything, but these tools help them simplify things, allowing them to focus on more interesting decisions You have no tools, only expectationsExpectations are trash that weighs down a game, like having a wrench strapped to your arm, clanging against your computer as you type away at your office jobTools get you from a to b, expectations impede youYou should focus on actually fucking playing gamesAt very least grind out some solo gamesAlso, post about the fucking game. you are nobody, infact everyone here is. none of us matter, only our ideas. next time you ask for something you should have actual plans or ideas relating to in instead of women (An unknown woman unrelated to the idea no less)
>>96697756Is this a brand new system or trying to publish homebrew/setting for an existing TTRPG?Go for it. As long as it sounds cool, players will fudge the rools anyways.And no pun intended but that guy in your picture is ugly god damn.
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>>96704539>with trannies, you get rich, with muslims, you become the employed equivalent of alex mahan>but either one still makes way more than mr. white superior who spent all his time posting racism only and collecting unemployment checksWhoa, you aren't allowed to say that on 4chan, buddy.
>>96704619Baldy
>>96703771The difference here is that a significant fraction of what Crusade and Jihad mean to some people is offensive to human civilization. That being said, it's nonsensical Crusaders are still in the game.The meaning of Jihad is a fundamental point of debate in Islam. It's as significant as the difference between Protestants and Catholics except far more meaningful because the differences in Jihad's meaning revolves almost entirely around whether the use of violence is permitted or not. Modern Catholics and Protestants aren't going to kill each other over their differences but Jihad can and does inspire violence. Put one way it's the difference between defining Jihad as "genocide" or "self-improvement". There's less ambiguity than Crusades, which were just plainly genocide.
>>96704674simple as
How do you come up with fantasy names for elves and dwarves and the like?
>>96639621Cleabourne, an elf named after Cleburne, Texas. Massengale, a dark elf villain named after a literal douche. Plus Malvayn, pronounced "male-vein," another dark elf sorcerer who lived through hundreds of years of history and knows more about the art of lovemaking than anyone.
>>96695391Any time I use dwarfs I always make them greek.
>>96639621>elvesI just make up the most hippie sounding name I can think of.>Uhhh, this is... Landriel Moonflower.>dwarvesJust mix:>hammer>axe>shield>beard>stoneIn any order and you will get a dwarf name:>this is Beard Stoneaxe and this is his friend Hammer Stonebeard
>>96639621What are some good names for fantasy horses?
>>96701738>Gambi>Studge>Killbastard>Syrup
Oh wow I didn't know this was real, I thought this was just a video game puzzle thing.This thing was just for show but what happens is you lit a fire on the altar and while the fire burned, heated air pushed water into the receiver, making it heavy enough to pull the rope and open the doors.Neat!~
>>96698406Yeah, old engineering stuff is pretty cool. but Traditional games?
The science of today is the magic of the past
>>96700049No, it was never magic, people just thought it was.
>>96700119The science of today is the what people thought was magic of the past
>>96700017Yeah I will allow you to use old engineering stuff in your traditional games.
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>>96705945For Light mechs that would happen when it gets hit just once with anything on anywhere
>>96706011And light mech pilots are noted for being fucking insane.
>>96706011Most light mechs should reasonably flee once mediums or heavier showed up, which is represented well in games by no one bringing them lol
>>96705921thanks that's the one!
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I've decided to decease my internet time and blue light exposure, buy an ebook reader, and get used to finishing the day with some reading, instead of all the other things that give me insomnia.What /tg/-related books have you been reading anon, or what you think what other people should read too? I've read Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit before I knew what the hell ttrpgs even were. Same with the original Dragonlance books. I was thinking of picking up Elric of Melnibone and Original Conan the Barbarian. Already read and enjoyed Eisenhorn, most of the Slayer books with Gotrek, first 1.5 of the Black Company books. And dear god I haven't read books for fun in so long, what have I been doing?
I just read The King in Yellow, thought it was good. The last story being a straight up rom-com threw me for a loop, especially since there was a war story 2 before it.Starship Troopers is a good time. Very hoo-rah manly men doing manly things. The Forever War is on my shelf, I'm going to try to get to it soon. But Heart of Darkness and The Count of Monte Cristo are also waiting for attention.Right now I'm reading Strange Houses and it's fun. The translation is written in a very light and easy to digest style, most of the book is dialog and it's pretty snappy. It frequently refers to drawings and diagrams as the plot revolves around them. I loved 813, but Im not sure it would be as good if you don't read LeBlanc's other stories before. The gentlemen thief must put on his detective hat and repair his reputation, for while he may be a crook, a liar, and a criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin is NOT a murderer!
>>96603000>Elric of MelnibonePass.>Original Conan the BarbariaVery good.More suggestions: Fitz Lieber, Ursula LeGuin
>>96699304Revelations is dope as shit.
Thieves' World is very RPG
>>96669642>>96669991It's super silly but is still insanely badass the whole way through. I was grinning so hard during that first chapter that I wound up reading the whole book out loud to my exgf. Was laughing so hard while Raven was trying to give his "this is why I'm evil" monolog and WT could barely hear him over the club music even though he was shouting at her from 2 feet away.
Now that the dust has settled, did Horus Heresy ruin 40k?The emperor's fall and the battle of terra were mysterious and ominous before but horus turned it into soap opera bullshit
>>96656705I wouldn't read that many, but I read a few (non HH)Yes, they aren't high lit, but they don't need to be. When I grab McD I don't expect a Michelin star meal, when I drive to work I don't listen to Mozart, tf2 is less complex than chess. You can indulge in some lower comoelxity content. Yes, there is a limit. Someone that reads nothing but genre fiction or watches MLP deserves scorn, but you can find some middleground. Something autists struggle with btwAlso, what you mentioned isn't exactly high lit either. Better than 40k, but not some hypercomplex stuff.
>>96656705>They are.God save us from reading nothing but the best.I've never appreciated this empty elitism, yes Mort De Arthur, the Tain Bo, Moby Dick and so on, these are REAL works and are the only things one should bury themselves in.The classics are crystalline history, it's good to read but the works present, the works here are the living culture, they are your present and future. reading them is engaging with the means of the time and they are not lesser for it, even commercial works.>warhammer ripped offDune would be better to send people too, it's a classic, much more academically loved than the pulps you list.do you think people didn't call Pulp manchild shit?are you delusional?Conan? Penny dreadful for teenagers>lovecraftboy's fantasy>erlicComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96685775>WOACfags support this because "THAT MODEL IS DIFFERENT I SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET LOS & INSTAGIB IT BECAUSE ID BE ABLE TO SEE A FINGERTIP IF IT WAS A STANDARD MODEL".Bro, it's worse.>it's good the box doesn't come with extra bits or the unit lost, people couldn't build it if it didn't come in the box.
>>96692134>Why did european colonisers teach inferior races laws, civil society, etc?In order to justify all the other shit they did in the background - that is, resource extraction and political powergaming. The Europeans intelligently assuaged any possible guilt of colonialism by throwing scraps to the natives, which genuinely did improve their lives, but didn't change the fact that the Europeans were primarily doing this all for their gain. You are just a seething lolcow seething over nothing for no gain whatsoever, claiming the moral high ground without actually gaining anything. Yesterday's slop might be better than today's slop, but let's not pretend like they are flawless.I'll do you one better, try reading some history. Gaining some knowledge into the way the world works. Then maybe you wouldn't be saying retarded shit like this.
>>96656667this looks like over-exposure with 15 different takes on the lore.Could be worse though, it could be the horus heresy in the style of the 'wh40k for teens' novels
I would have a small group remain loyal to the Empire and keep the name "War Hounds."
>>96691626I think a lot of chaos space marines suffer from their 30k backstories being>daddy issues>being retarded >being trickedMakes it cooler if they're raping and pillaging for the love of the game rather than to make space dad mad
>>96693852Amen
>>96698461He did nothing wrong, the Imperium forced him to commit atrocities.Now that I think about it, the Astral Claws have the same color scheme as the World Eaters before the Heresy and get the same red color scheme after rebelling against the Imperium.
>>96691626Here's an actual fucking idea. Butcher's Nails are archeotech, no one knows how they work, and no one is making more of them, that means there is a finite supply of them and most are already shoved in the brains of World Eaters. They're having to ration that shit out when it comes to new members post-Heresy, meaning you've got World Eaters with fewer implants than the OGs. They experience weaker effects that allow them to retain focus and state of mind far better than their elders. This is causing issues because the guys leading the warbands are starting to get outplayed by the new guys and its further schisming the already fractured World Eaters.
>>96691626It really shouldn't be all that hard to give them more personality beyond being screaming idiots who can't stop moving and attacking everything in sight.Possibly put more emphasis on the obvious downsides of being meat blender non-stop and it's deliterious effects on their minds and bodies.As for a loyalist World Eater group, have people mistake them for Blood babies which they actively encourage or even believe themselves and give hints like carrying some traits of Nucerian culture
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>>96703674Grotesques would take a lot more work to make and they could only sell that model for slightly more than the archon kit which takes half as much plastic.
>>96703038>Holding the sickle blade the correct wayHoly fucking shit thank god, some sword nerd is still at GW, fucking game of thrones populaised that style of blade being held backwards
>>96703532<3
>>96703046Nigga you high? There is way, way worse art than that lol. Look at the 7th and 8th ed books, they look like straight up garbage ripped off of devianart. Even still sometimes, just look at the golden diaper baby and that atrocious black templar codex cover. I feel so bad for black templar players.
>>96703819Its a sickle.
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>>96703694He's right though. Using it to make art is one thing. I still hate it because it's so fucking ugly you'd be better off with no art 99% of the time, but asking a chatbot to do your thinking for you and then even worse, showing it to other people as if it's something your friend Grok told you is just sad. Have some self respect.
>>96703837Not at all what happened. Anon himself said he didn't mind using AI for research (what I did). Either anon is right or he's not. You're just repeating a meme.
>>96703939>What I do have a problem with is people who use the AI tool as the entirety of their effort, without even a modicum of actual human output.is the point you seem to want to ignore. Maybe you should copy paste this thread into grok and ask it what you're missing here.
>>96699369>Literally tells you what to look for and where to find it.You're nowhere near as smart as you think you are anon.>>96699405Once again on par with someone on /pol/ calling me a jew
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>>96704702"They proxied the best cards" shouldn't even be an issue now. You have brackets. Why are you not asking if the proxyfags deck is out of bracket or not? And if it IS in bracket yet you're whining then, congrats, you're the fuckin pubstomper and you're bitching you're going against similar power decks.>refuse to use the safety restraints provided to you>fall out of moving ride>cry
>>96704742Owning cards is cool, potentially interesting, and harkens back to a different time. Owning a piece of printer paper that says Chains of Mephistopheles is 0% interesting and I'm not seeing a cool rare card.Do what you want, I just won't be impressed.
>>96704805This isn't really any argument? At most it is a personal argument as to why you don't use them. But it isn't a general argument against proxies themselves.
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>>96701370I love that guy, but yes, without him on the board the deck does nothing and he is too expensive with commander tax
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>>96702396correct, and such units have rift dice to ”power” their effects
>>96686699Real Online Woman or Real Online Nazi?
>>96652656I think it might be med time, anon
>>96696712This is what I need in K47, having nothing just looks like a gaping plothole.I hope we learn more about the Viridian Window soon.
What kind of sword does this Wish make?
>>96682304[The Unnamed Blade}Whatever the blade touches is subject to the same effect as the spell Unname - unlike the spell this ability works on all creatures, objects and effects. Will save DC 24 to resist. In case of unattended non-magical objects they automatically fail this save. In case of magical effects their creator is the one who is doing the save if they are still alive, in case they are dead the effect automatically fails the save. ___Congratulations! Your world if fucked.
>>96682304A sword that never needs to be used because you solve all of your problems without violence from now on.You're welcome.
>>96682514>>96682566Your games are gay if they exist at all.
>>96682304An indestructible weapon capable of cleaving form and soul. Designed by its creators to slay dark spirits, the taint of their sacrificial methods granted it a supernatural personality that compels its wielder to destroy irrespective of whether or not the intended victims are evil or not, rolling maximum damage against all Outsiders and similar morally "pure" beings.Gods and similar greater powers know of the weapon, yet all mortals, including the creators, forget any and all knowledge of the weapon the moment they no longer sense it. Even the archiving of information is magically wiped clean.TL;DR: it's a potential god-killer weapon that's stuck in a memory hole. It becomes a recurring gag that whoever uses the weapon is surprised by its power until it's put away, after which everyone forgets the sword's involvement in the preceding events.
>>96696047Quite the contrary. Writing down exactly what your reality-warping magic is supposed to do in autistically specific detail is three quarters of the fun. Much like going into a dungeon, utilizing magic on this scale requires preparation and consideration, or it will go horribly, messily wrong.
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>>96701475Tankista hates me that much...?
>>96698681>Post unfinished cyoas you hope the author will come back and complete one dayThere are many. I'd like DTA/Shirley to come back and finish Tome-fu, for example.
>>96698681>>96703962I'd like to see Retired Protagonist finished, too.
>>96703970Bloodborne 2: Longest NightHalf-Dragon Roommate (revised)Dogs of War. . .
>>96701341This is one evil image, this is more eye torture than a cyoa
>Previous thread:>>96642268>What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, Judge Dredd, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96701296>>96702413 I have seen them before and will eventually buy a box or two to make a maniple of ironbreakers; but from your picture they looked like 15mm miniatures
>>96699496>What makes a good mecha game according to you?GW replying anon here. Interesting question, I'm still sorting this out myself. Really if I'm honest whatever mecha game is easiest to teach my wife to play is a good mecha game. This rules out most of them as far as I can tell. Best bet with that has been Chris Perin's Mecha with a larger combat map and its mostly a story game. I think Heavy Gear and CAV are nice compromises in terms of crunch and not being battletech. I really like battletech but its not a very good game, just has lots of shit going on to fiddle with. If that's the part you want it's likely functional.
>>96704507They stand on 25 mm round bases. Might be the perspective or something or I might have bigger hands than I think.
>>96704267Tactical Operations has multiple options for dealing with it. Including Double Blind rules.
>>96702413Geez anon I asked because I tought they were 15mm. That's dwarf for you lol.
