GM protip: Designate a record keeper before you start. He/she is tasked with tracking the session progress and brief players prior to the session.It's how you train your replacement.
>>98841225>t. will be replaced himself by a slop engine in short order
>>98839686>It's how you train your replacement.So not only you are refusing to actually play with rotation of GM, but you are also planning to deliberately train the replacement in the wrong things?Wow OP, brilliant
>>98841710... yes, and? OP is clearly aiming at not being a GM, so what's the problem of achieving exactly that?
>>98839686I don't have this problem. I have a different problem. Which is that my group is made up of about 80% GMs (including me), and I have to basically fight with them over getting to run any games when I actually want to run a game.
>>98844201Why not agree to taking turns? If someone misses their day, it automatically skips to the next person in line.
Reminder that (you) will NEVER have wargaming clubs in the USA. You can never have pic related. You will be stuck in LGS hell and be forced to play mainline GW warhammer wargames FOREVER. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
>>98839320Does that really count?
>>98825252Yeah, can't wait to get into over the reenactment of the battle of hastings for the ten millionth time cause 'there was no bridge in braveheart' before somebody arrests you for using a spork without a liscense.
>>98839713At least euros get to play more games than fucking warhammer warhammer warhammer warhammer warhammer with maybe a little bit of battletech or bolt action interspersed in there
>>98842743On the plus side, I own a firearm and don't get arrested for making an off color comment about Muslims online.Enjoy your tabletop, NERD
>>98839253>So if everyone stumped up $5 a night (assuming you only have it once a week), that's $40, for 4 weeks in a month $160 - there's your room rent coveredThe problem is that nerds are real cheapasses about this kind of thing
Palladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/The world is a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by the eruption of inter-dimensional portals, rifts in the fabric of space-time and ley lines which crisscross the world. Demon & alien invaders have poured out of the rifts to destroy human civilization and claim the Earth. Now the wasteland has had 300 years to partially recover, and civilization has returned to the world; but not just human civilization: alien empires, monster kingdoms, lost time travellers, lands of mutants, demonic overlords and wizards have arisen from the ashes, all trying to rebuild the world in their own image!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)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98839701Eh, as a whole it's pretty relaxed despite being a post-apocalypse death world with signs of what it used to be. Specific source books, like Madhaven and the Dimension book for Hell, are loaded with horrific vistas and situations.
Are the forums gone for good? Its been more than 2 months now since they were down for maintenance.
>>98828543>reddit QA about the glitterboy codex>No new GB units. Just the USA-G10>Just mods and lore about specific customer USA-G10s>Such great ideas as the: One that has had a lot of different mixed parts! One that eats metal! One that has a haunted skull! One that has a foliage cape and a crossbow!>An OCC that is the operator but... He likes working on GBs. Its an Operator but we are imposing a personal hobby for them to have.>BTW, we will tell you which books have the better GB units because we are getting buried alive in our back catalog.Well, I guess they saved me 20 bucks.
>>98842633Im going to say probably. It really misses in my cornflakes because there was a lot of splicers lore and stuff that is gone with the writers having disappeared years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZX4T02aGXQThe first big-name production using Daggerheart as a system will be between Critical Role and Hololive (yes, the VTubers).
>>98839439Daggerheart is a setting agnostic rule system. They have the vaguest outline of a multiverse with many different sub-settings within it and the encouragement for players to make up their own.Exandria is the main setting for campaign 1-3, played in the DnD system. Now you of course can play an Exandria game in Daggerheart no issues, but since Daggerheart at large doesnt have one single main setting, Tharizdun isnt mentioned. Because in the CR-verse, Tharizdun is only featured in Exandria.Hope that makes sense.>>98839476Yeah. The Daggerheart Books give you some setting primers like pic related. Its kinda like "hey, wanna play Grayhawk? Ebberon? Forgotten Realms?"
>>98824591>He doesnt enjoy seeing spastic retards do their thing when in a group of people he doesnt like.Shit taste desu
>>98839078>>98839506https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA3-InoYsWQ
>GirynENTER
>>98824297Based Ravencroft
>The Skaven are an incredibly numerous, widespread and fractious race>The Skaven all live under the authority of the Council of Thirteen and worship the Horned RatMake it make sense.
>>98840996Wild rats apparently also tend to live in groups of about 13 individuals, which I don't think is a coincidence here.
>>98827777It's Warhammer. Nothing in that setting makes sense when you poke it with the slightest bit of intelligence. It's a wargame, and any 'setting' it has has to be shoehorned in, so it will never make sense.
Maybe it's like how a lot of real dictatorial regimes like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union deliberately encouraged infighting either to promote survival of the fittest or to prevent the lower ranks from uniting against the leadership.
>>98840979>>98841800OTOH, there were some Germans who resisted Nazism because they opposed the ideology rather than simply wanting to be the ones in charge.
>>98827777it is only through great treachery and cruelty that the Great Horned Rat and the Council of Thirteen are able to exercise anything so much as resembling authority over the numerous, widespread and fractious skaven.>>98840996>itself link to the purge of the Knights Templar by the Papacym8 it goes back even further than that, try counting how many people were at The Last Supper sometime (hint: there is 1 Jesus and 12 Apostles)
If the Eldar are so worried about their souls being taken by Slaanesh, why don't they just devote themselves to one of the other three Ruinous Powers? Are they stupid?
If Khaine can't protect them what makes you think other gods can?
>>98830783No, well, they kinda are, but in this instance they are not stupid, that’s why they aren’t making deals with the other ruinous powers.They already know that the other 3 are still offering shit deals that might, MIGHT, offer short term gains or momentary relief, but in the long run, serving any of them will leave them in a worse place than whatever shit they were in when they made the deal, but with now with no “out”.And to be honest, I kinda question your own critical thinking and reading comprehension skills if you haven’t figured it out yet that out yet yourself.
>>98840195>The Emperor doesn't save peopleI have bad news for you, because thanks to the many, many years of publishing, yes there are things that say he does in fact save people. Albeit "saved" is a euphemism for "their souls are absorbed into the blinding pillar of shining golden souls that is the Emperor within the Warp" but they do get absorbed by him, not just eaten by daemons.
>ITT: people responding to an obvious shitpost like it's a legitimate questionI knew a lot of autists liked TTRPGs, but goddamn. I'm literally autistic and I saw this for what it is.
>>98843547Some people are bored, see something tangential to what they actually want to talk about, and dive in. Taking the bait has no consequences.That aside, I have only skimmed eldar codices, so i have no idea why craftworlders, exodites, and outcasts are damned when they weren't directly involved with the creation of slaanesh. They have moral culpability for not tardwrangling their cousins, but how can slaanesh claim them if they didn't participate?
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Honor the Dragon! Glory to the Draconis Combine! editionPrevious: >>98825363>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://battletech.com/qsr/>Rookie Guideshttps://tinyurl com/ydtr589ehttps://pastebin.com/HZvGKuGxhttps://files.catbox.moe/l1gjfi.jpg>Sarna.net – BattleTech WikiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98847532Also flippable arms for maximum turret gameplay
Do plasma weapons have a particular color?
>>98847532The 70 tonner variants don't exist until almost 3060 though, and is primarily associated with the FedCom Civil War. Remember the stock Jagermech is 65 tons.
Bump limit and page 10. Wonder what the next OP will be, as I can't take the opening to be the one to make it.
>>98847908Why not?
I think everyone has seen yugioh is basically dead and a ftk complete mess, this sounds like they are going nuclear. 34 bans 8 limits, basically unhead of in any card game Will this be enough to get anyone to try playing it again, riftbound seemed like the last nail in their coffin in market share in the west
>>98842715>Droll limitedLOOOOOL fuck this shitty ass game, there goes one of the best forms of actual counterplay and interactivity!
>>98842715>Droll limit Tomorrow's part better be massacre because killing droll does more harm then good
>>98842882The problem with Droll is that the player that goes first can use it. It stops Charmies and if you don't use it on your turn, you can use it on your opponent's turn. It should get banned and a new version that has restrictions similiar to the Mulcharmies should be printed.
>>98842882>>98842892Droll is a bandaid fix that allows Konami to indefinitely put off confronting their newer cards' bad game design. Limiting Droll means that they'll be forced to actually confront the problems with the way they design cards. It will be a net positive in the long run.
Welcome to Mecha Monday! Here we dedicate ourselves to mecha RPGs, wargames, and boardgames alike. Here we start games, tell campaign stories, share resources & assets, and seek advice for our games and homebrew.Assorted Mecha Goodness:https://pastebin.com/E2wi55AZEmbryo Machine Translation:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r_cjOLuUp3HussVRhbQYU3G0zK6hwy1rLancehounds Homebrew:M3g4 folder/eMEBUbCL#kj2FRrlqTa-02U16XpnVRgPrevious Thread: >>98713149Heavy Gear 4e adventures are now out to backers; Heavy Gear 4e is also on sale at Humble BundleQuestion of the Thread: Do you prefer real, super or something inbetween robots? Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98833204Goldion Crusher
>>98817734I don’t think Heavy Object counts as mecha
>>98807781Grim
>>98780920Forever Winter still has all national governments fighting amongst each other on autopilot. In this setting the survivors are essentially stateless, with city-states that did rise up starting to collapse as the freezing temperatures spread down from the poles. Everyone is migrating to the warmlands around the equator, or to geographic features that might let them survive better. I sort of envisioned it as a combination of Banner Saga, Battlestar Galactica and The Road but with giant robots. One of the conceits would be that the players are each members of a clan within a larger tribe that has been surviving up in Canada for a century or two, and now are being driven south by renegade drones under a malevolent AI and the creeping permawinter. Each clan has its sort of totemic war-mech, and the player is really more playing the mech than their actual character, who might die or age out. The mech can almost always be salvaged and repaired, but pilots can get slimed pretty easy in Heavy Gear is something goes wrong.That said yeah it'd be hard to have missed Forever Winter while having this idea. Always a bit miffed that the vidya doesn't have much winter in it though, also it runs awful. Bit too transhuman for my taste as well. Also imagined the robots being a bit smaller, like post-apocalyptic VOTOMs.
>>98839120Dark
>inb4 it's all mushrooms
Grimlocks.>What do Grimlocks eat?Grimlocks.
seams like with chemical seeps or nearby thermal activity yous have enough for an ecology based on reducing metals for electrons instead of photosynthesis
>>98840281Seafood. There are entire oceans inside of the Underdark.
>>98842458What do the oceans eat?
>>98840281fried chicken and watermelon.
Jank Tribal EditionPrevious: >>98833639>Newshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-february-9-2026>Current Banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Bracket Informationhttps://files.catbox.moe/4tbvzw.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/r62yfy.pngComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98843711Alesha MLD
>>98843785I have a theory that they pushed the white Ixalan Conquistadors as some way to get back at those players who didn't want Campaign of Vengeance with shoehorned token negroes and butch dyke Anje Falkenrath in their decks>Y-you are a racist white colonizer!! >:cYes, and?Anyway, thanks for the card
>>98843568Like half the set is hidden gems that you'll regret not grabbing while you can. Probably the second best set of 2025.
I somehow survived a bracket-5 pod with this shit lmao. This is probably the funniest commander of this set, I'm not even joking.
>>98846485You mean you won by casting dack?
And I Can Prove it>D&D 4e>Shadowrun 4e>Exalted 2e>Pathfinder 1e>GURPS 3e>Grog AD&D 2e>Warhammer 6e>Warhammer RPG Rogue Trader 1e>B/X revised>Ars Magicka 2e>Palladium (literally anything from Palladium)Basically all the math heavy, number crunching games were my favorite because they filtered out idiots, and yet these are the least popular. (Cutting 3.5 and 1st ed AD&D gets rid of all the autists)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98803658>Exalted 2eWas and is the most popular, but Exalted is dead in general.
>>98839693you wouldn't know it by the way fanboys jumped ship and the bile they exuded towards all the 'inappropriate' content in 2nd ed.
>>98839700Most of the bile are from sycophants tied directly to the devs, they tried to gaslid so much that the fancord had to put a "read the books" rule.
>>98803658>My Favorite Editions are the Least PopularWRONGMy homebrew system is even less popular than any of those. Not even I play it.Checkmate.
>>98840043You know it's bad when even the fucking hugbox itself has to self-police its own dickriding.
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: pastee.dev/p/sp2Mdb5Ihttps://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generatorDiscord links:/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98828396I had Pendragon in mind where a PCs character is as mechanically relevant as the rents of their holdings which finance equipment. Far from relevant to most games I'll admit (the posts were freewheeling fun). I think the virtue / vice aspect still has a place in that the loftier the heights a witch topples their simp from the more formidable the monster. While clerical magic might fight fire with fire (or rather vice with contrasting / nullifying virtue) perhaps druids reduce a heraldic animal to its merely "natural" inspiration. A lion does not kill for pleasure the same way an embodiment of Pride does, still risky yet a risk reduction all the same.>>98829605Fair enough. Sufficiently advanced asshole making playthings of mere mortals leads to hellscapes by default. So long as there is distributed enforcement of food taste as you describe here >>98829669 things need not escalate to body horror. The question remains though, those who castrated the post-furries: were mankind as a whole morally competent yet uninterested in the doings of Nerds until Those Guys emerged? If so why don't they bother to be interstellar? How do they maintain a cohesive understanding of Good Taste? >>98834691Doesn't ring a bell. You have any further details?
>>98837062> mankind as a whole morally competent yet uninterested in the doings of Nerds until Those Guys emerged? If so why don't they bother to be interstellar? How do they maintain a cohesive understanding of Good Taste?Firstly, body horror? Not exactly, this might not have been clear in the description but let me try to clarify: genetic engineering in this setting can’t be used to, say, turn yourself into a blue hedgehog, that’s just too extreme an alteration and you would just end up with cancer. But a zygote is another story, that you could engineer into whatever you want using the setting’s technology. Like growing a hedgehog girlfriend (or boyfriend) in a tube. Which is where all the “ick” of what the furries did came from. You could not convince any rational person that the relationship with the creature that’s biologically 25, but chronologically 3, is a healthy relationship between consenting, informed adults and not some exploitative bullshit. Hence why I don’t think it qualifies as “body horror” they didn’t go through some traumatic transformation sequence, they were “born” that way and it’s all they know.1: the general attitude regarding the activities of the nerds is largely a case of “as long as they aren’t bothering anyone or hurting anyone, what they choose to do with their free time is not our problem”.2: they are interstellar, this is an interstellar setting. As a matter of fact, the whole reason a lot of this tech got developed in the first place was due to humanity overextending itself during those early years and developing tech to compensate.3: kinda falls into the same qualifier as how one identifies what is porn and what is art “I know it when I see it”. So just like today, doesn’t matter the subculture, they grew up and spend some amount of time in and around “normal society” so they know what is “good” and “decent” and when one of their own has crossed a line.
>>98837876The same technology that allows people to casually build wonderlands can conceivably be turned to unsavoury uses and as space is BIG it's difficult to coordinate a response that'd prevent bad actors from shitting up one place before fleeing reprisals to the next spot.Your rationales guard against these darker possibilities quite well (beyond the fact that as author one can set a certain theme and work backwards to justify it), I was just curious what the reasons were. Now I know.
SWN anon here. One of the aspects of the system I've been struggling with is how to deal with is teleportation. Since I've tied the psychic powers to the technology of the setting I'm trying to see how to scale it in such a way so it doesn't go too far outside of control in a way.For instance, "Pseudo Gravity" is the combination of telekinesis as well as the typical spin gravity one would expect from a space habitat and only really works for large facilities. Similarly, I was thinking of integrating teleportation into this to allow faster travel in the solar system except they can only blink in and out for short bursts and have to slow boat the rest of the way so trips to the moon takes hours and Venus/Mars takes days.Should I also apply this to a space elevator type set up as well where it blinks part way up?
>>98837062>I think the virtue / vice aspect still has a place in that the loftier the heights a witch topples their simp from the more formidable the monster.hahahahahahah it would be cool but im not as good game designer to make it all work
"After all these years, they still search" edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98841774Sounds about right. 6-9 mechs for the regiment, assuming full complement of crew and support specialists for each make the headcount add up.
>>98839966>>98842479When it comes to equipment and changes over time for the walkers themselves the wiki says that they were originally unarmed except for the firing ports with the cannons being a new addition, so that could work for the options of what to give them at least.Similarly, my notes have the Armoured Traction Engines as debuting in an ad-hoc form around 1868. In-game they would probably best be counted as artillery that gives Shield or Armour to attached units, with the equipment available to them changing in terms of if they have a Maxim onboard as well or not, since the RBL 40 Pounder itself was in use for three decades without replacement.
>>98842520>the wiki says that they were originally unarmed except for the firing ports with the cannons being a new addition, so that could work for the options of what to give them at least.I like that. > picrelSo this would be the ranged weapon's card, although in the case of a riffle, it also has in inborn melee attack because you could always crack a skull with a rifle, even more so some of the ones of the era were pretty massive. Apply the Accuracy to Training when shooting with it. Power & Reach (both for Range and Melee in the case of Power) will only apply in case of a special rule. Each are on a 3-scale (Weak-Moderate-Strong / Short-Medium-Long). Advantage will be a bonus to Training while in Melee (like the Accuracy modifier from Ranged Attacks) but will be tied to the melee weapons of your opponents (So, a battleaxe could give a +2 vs Short & Weak weapons, a Spear could give a +1 vs a Medium Weapon, etc etc).
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>Be White Wolf>Outspokenly progressive company>All of their settings are about how regular people need to be lead and protected by special strongmen to keep them safeWhat did White Wolf mean by this?
>>98841351It may be the only thing that's specifically highlighted as being not caused by the supernatural (though there were supernaturals all over the Reich), if you think about it for more than a second there's literally no way that White Wolf has written enough WoD books to cover literally everything else that happened in human history. You just don't know enough about human history to think of anything they haven't covered.
>>98841351>we have to make special exceptions to the established but unspoken rules of the setting because otherwise the gameline who did WW2 would be psy-op'd to death by the Israeli-Far right cabal into "being based, actually"I suppose they would make money selling "Sword of Caine" patches on the same websites that sell Rhodesian patches, but I don't think it would be worth it to the company as a whole to be so associated with one of the major fires the west is trying to put out.
If they weren't stupidly progressive then we wouldn't have accidentally gotten the biggest jobbers in all of tabletop.
>>98842279Yeah, Mages are trash and only make the world worse.
>>98841239Franco's Spain was embargoed out the ass, and the Spanish still didn't starve to death.Try again.