Is there a bigger red flag than people who talk about how much they hate elves?
>>98329697Being Hispanic
>>98329697Hating elves and liking tieflings is the mark of the homosexual.
>>98348994Warhammer Fantasy Elves are cool though.Hell Warhammer 40k elves are cool too.They suffer because their faggot causing from D&D suck ass
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Motorboat Edition>2024 Core Rulebookshttps://mega(dot)nz/folder/d2ohSCSL#5HnqSMJncr9Queh8KDzbSQ>2024 Official free ruleshttps://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules>2014 Official Free Ruleshttps://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014>2024 UAhttps://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/ua>2014 Erratahttps://dnd.wizards.com/dndstudioblog/sage-advice-book-updatesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98354197I kind of like the beastborne ranger. Too bad no wrestler barbarian. Would have loved to play that, an unarmed melee-grapple focused character
>Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are only obscured by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.>Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.How big is the difference in reliability for enabling the standard Rogue tactic of hiding and shooting with advantage? Obviously the Wood Elf is a much more complete package than the Lightfoot Halfling in other areas, with Darkvision, free Perception proficiency, racial longbow proficiency, and much better speed. Rerolling 1s is never going to come up if you always attack with advantage.
>>98354273you wouldn't need to rely on foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena as a halfling. Just stand behind your non-halfling companion and shoot from cover
is this too bland/strong?
How does one come up with ideas for a campaign or quest? I actually don't know what the process is. Like, unless I have particular inspiration I just feel like my brain just... stops. It doesn't do "idea making".
Why do they keep their forms looking fresh and young? It’s totally missing the point. They aren’t rot maxing or cultivating the scent of carrion. It’s like they don’t even like undeath or something. They powder their faces with the souls of unborn children to stay looking “good”. They actually panic when their jaw falls off. I don’t understand it.
This entire thread consists of images of death knights, necromancy figures, vampires, and no lichs.
>>98294830>>98294881It's the truth.
>>98342859Women are retarded and think liches look like death knights
lol
Girls? Here? Don’t be preposterous…
World Championship Edition Here is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98354379Wyvern CCGDefinitely some fantastic art.
>>98353554I think it's a rogue deck in the current format. I find it to be pretty strong, but it's not very popular, so there isn't much information or many top finishes with it.>>98353391Sike, It's Kaijudo. Water/Light Tempo deck that I topped with right before the game died.
>>98354380>The relaunch of the old card game?One and the same! They just finished their Kickstarter backer fulfillment. I've designed some deck boxes for them, with the official blessing of TCG Co.
>>98354230At what point did you trademark your stuff?
>>98354610The only thing I can realistically trademark is the logo. I can claim copyright on the artwork I commissioned, but trademarking artwork is silly and frightfully expensive. Once I had a logo and was ready for marketing, that was the point in time where I trademarked the logo. Could I have done so earlier? Probably. Should I have? Maybe?
Welcome to Open OSR. This thread is for open OSR discussions of TSR-era D&D, retroclones, neoclones and broader OSR-adjacent and retro games.Discussions about what "OSR" means are unwelcome. Discussion of if 2e is OSR is also unwelcome and off-topic .You can talk about all OSR and OSR-Adjacent games without distinction here, so it doesn't matter.There is a general for those who want to talk about games strictly inspired by first decade D&D. If that is your preference, you can find that here: >>98264675Please do not engage with trolls.Previous thread >>98252496Thread Question:>> What was the first d&D or OSR adventure you ran or played?
>>98351051>that's killing ACKSGot any proof of this besides you crying on 4chan?
>>98334452ACKS- and probably some others- have the best race-as-class solution, where each class is restricted to a race. Humans have the most classes to pick from, and some of the most focused. Demihumans have class options that are multiclassed or otherwise themed towards them. Ancient freak races have ancient freak classes. Lizardmen have lizard classes. It's much better design than race being a tiny set of things that get glued onto a class, and it totally eliminates the idea of a race just being a min-max knob. The ACKS solution > race-as-class > AD&D's solution (with max levels and min/max perks) >> modern gaming's race-as-bullshit.
>>98352446ACK is just over complicated bullshit to be overcomplicated. The easy fix is race and Class. Done. Making 17 different "racesl classes" just so you can get a little bit of options but not do the easy fix is stupid.You will never convince me as as class is not stupid
>>98352525Do yourself a favor and ignore the ACKShill. He's completely insane and bad faith is his blood.He'd try to sell you tapeworms as a weight loss solution.
>>98353269I just don't get the ACK so called fix. It's just complicated to be complicated.
>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, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet & Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Full Spectrum Dominance, Gaslands,HeroClix, Kings of War, Lords & Legends, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, Sahipkıran, Sludge, Space Weirdos, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sword Weirdos,Urban War, Void Admiral, Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.>Examples of companies providing rules and/or miniatures for alternative wargames.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98354168Was comparing similar model count kits.Like Necromunda where you need between 5 to 10 models in the usual gang; and the necro kits usually como with 10 modelsIn other words I was comparing apples to apples. Got nothing against TC or GW. Just pointing out that TC for what you get is extremely overpriced even compared to similar products from GW or other companies.
>>98353418Can you share your resources once you're done please?
>>98354253Fair enough. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
>>98354253>and the necro kits usually como with 10 modelsAnd its always two dublicate sprues, cutting the cost.And you said, it makes GW look cheap, when its similarly priced. If something is similar, it does not make the other thing seem cheap. If anything, then those prices (GW and TC) make Northstar stuff seem cheap, while both of them are at the same pricing level.
>>98354511Cheap by comparison. Not that it is actually cheap. Also anon, this reddit bullshit about "not mentioning X, means Y is A and B"Only reason why GW is ever brought regarding TC is because TC guys themself brought it up as a cheaper thing when in reality it is not.Even ignoring the necro example GW has other similar kits being cheaper per model. Does this mean GW is the cheapest thing ever or that other companies are also expensive? No it is the entire point of making example and comparisons.It is perfectly possible to find more expensive things than GW or TC and also cheaper anon. Am I dealing with children or something? That a post needs to put every possible conditions otherwise the Tuomas Internet Defense Force show up to muddy the waters.
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!The Heroes Of The Star League EditionPrevious: >>>>>>>>>98321642 >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.
>>98354279They're SRMs that can only fire indirectly at LRM ranges. Their only good ammo is airburst since it is an AOE attack.
>>98351168What's the plan for final presentation, just post all the pictures you've taken and actions at once whenever it all ends?
Does CGL do anything with Diamond Comics? Seems like Paizo got fucked working with them
>>98354571They owed CGL 400 000$I don't know if they got it back.https://www.gamesradar.com/tabletop-gaming/comic-book-company-that-owes-wotc-and-hasbro-over-usd1-900-000-files-for-bankruptcy/
>>98354320Its more a question regarding if that damage stacks with multiple launchers, how is it applied, can it be blocked etc. In that case against fast moving lights and small squad infantry and BA it could be cheesy.
>"I search the wagon. What's inside?">"You find a total of 60kg of flour, divided among 12 sacks of 5kg each. There's also 30 bottles of wine, each 1.5L full. There's 10 sheets of wool fabric, each 5 metres long and 1.4 metres wide, although one of the sheets is stained with dirt and possibly food. There's just under 700g of dried sausages in a small bag, along with 2kg of salt in a sizable glass jar, and a half-full sack with maybe 1.5kg of various root vegetables. You find a single gold bar worth 100 pieces, and 4 bars of silver worth 50 pieces each. There is also about 8kg of iron ingots.">"Splendid. Perhaps we can use the flour, wine, and iron to pay off our tax obligations to the lord. We can repair the wagon and use it for ourselves to carry our goods and treasure. We can keep the gold and silver as currency, and use the food on our travels."
>>98354144To be fair to them, it was a calculated risk and the odds were 50/50ish. They got surrounded and their only option was to ditch the cart and run. They also lost a strong mercenary and the party dog.
>>98354166>>98354116He's making fun of you because you fail to see value in an item unless it has excplicit combat usage in the system. But given that it's an RPG and in your own words, "can do anything you desire", then you can quite literally use any of those items listed in combat if you use your wits.
>>98354424as anon says, you can in fact, use theflour in combat in a myriad of ways, you just need to get creative and have a barbarian on hand with a good pair of throwing arms
>>98354034Agreed. If nothing else it's more interesting because it gives both variety and opportunities for actually using them in interesting ways.>We found 10,000 year old tile work depicting the birth of a God, how the fuck do we get this back to one of the temples in one piece so we can sell it to themAnd>So we've got barrels of wine in the cart right? Hey, Bear-Tribe, Parlay, we've got wine for your chieftain if we can come through your landsAre both possibilities you don't really get if everything comes in gold bullion.
>>98353998My players would have already started over shouting each other and off topic talking by the time I mentioned flour.
Can't have breasts on a blue board!>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>98354023>Kids are cruel, Jack
>>98354039Imagine being a Prussian veteran trooper who’s fought demons, zombies and madmen for years and you get smoked by a satanic child with a hand-me-down carbine
>>98353326>Now how to fix it, I don’t know.Only total repentance before God and public disavowing of trannies.
2 weeks till carcass front ships, excited?
>>98354267Where are my STLs nigger?
In H P Lovecraft's universe what do the cultists really receive for their suffering? It seems either nothing at all or some minor boons, nothing worth the cost. I don't understand why you'd serve something that hates you so much for nothing in return.
>>98348981Usually death and madness.It's not like they tell you what you're in for.Take as an example the "church" that was experimenting with The Shining Trapezohedron.They all gathered under an occultist who believed they could use it to contact entities outside normal reality, and he was right.They began to experiment with it, and slowly, it began to change them.By the time The Haunter In The Dark was capable of manifesting mid-ritual to vanish the participants, they had all started to go quite mad from exposure to the Trapezohedron and it's powers.
>>98348981First, they're insane.Second, purpose.Third, magic and incredibly powerful allies.Fourth, they're insane.
>>98348981people in real, actual life join cults that actively make their lives fucking awful, kill their friends and family, abuse them physically, take all their money, and destroy their social existence outside of the cult, and they will be fucking diehard about it. Aum Shinrikio is about on par with your average Cthulhu cult, the only difference being that the insane rambling guy at the head of the organization was actually communing with outer intelligence (that we know of).
>>98348981Imagine you are living in a shitty family with domestic and sexual abuse and suddenly a group where everyone call you bro is not so bad to stay.
>>98352574>>98352360>The desperate and abused looking for control>>98350223>>98350822>>98350852>>98350866>>98350912>The degenerate hedonists that know they'll be able to use their power to do what they can't under any other circumstances>>98350010>The absolutely bugfuck insaneWell that about covers the three legs of the cult tripod.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Waifu EditionPrevious Thread: >>98303733Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/raw/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/raw/scAkFdTvTQ:>Who is your board game waifu/crush?>What board game mechanic will cause you to "nope" out of a teach
>>98353484>is it deadKinda yes in my opinion but then again I don't see how second edition is becoming more alive. The expansions where always pretty expensive and the second hand market doesn't sell cheap. So now those aren't getting reprints for sure. That being said the game is still out there and has everything you could possibly need. Betting on second edition while it doesn't have a fraction of content compared to the already existing one doesn't make much sense. You can build investigator decks and play through several adventures for many many hours. And if you really want, there are several fan made campaigns with really good quality you can print&play. I tried to bring it to my group several times but it never really clicked so I only own the base game and played it a bit on TTS. By the way, there is a discord where you can get ALL campaigns and investigators for your tabletopsimulator for free. So if you yourself and/or your lads are interested you can play everything for free before deciding on buying into it.
>>98353627Thanks for the insight! Have you and your group clicked with any other Eldritch themed games? Looking for something to scratch that itch.
>>98353915NTA but it depends on what you're looking for. The Eldritch/Arkham/Mansions of Madness/Elder Signs are all similar in the sense that they're played in one-off scenarios and are basically just dice chuckers with different levels of involvement. My personal preference out of these is Mansions of Madness because it provides a much more immersive experience via the app. It's not a particularly good or strategic game, but if you're interested in this stuff going in, it should at least hold your interest enough to play each scenario once. AH TCG on the other hand is much more involved because A) It has cross-match progression (campaigns, carrying over your characters to different scenarios)B) It is a deck constructor, for lack of a better term, and is very front-loaded. Especially if you want to jump in with lots of content, there is such an amount of investigator cards to build your deck that you can easily spend an evening just building your starting deck.So it's not really something you can just sit down and play, and I personally don't have the patience for it since at the end of the day it also partially boils down to "you pulled a tentacle from the bag and died" kind of garbage. If I ever need a fix of that, I'll just pull out Mansions of Madness, play a single scenario, and leave it on the shelf for another year.Some people swear by it and say that a lot of scenarios are well-made, but having played through the base campaign and jumping into the full TTS mod, I just bounced off of it. Not the kind of game I'd like to spend inordinate amounts of time on.
>>98353915>>98354000Also NTA but try out the best Ameritrash Cthuli game
>>98354000Side note about frontloading in general. Earthborne Rangers does the same kind of thing by basically showing you all the cards of each class and having you build a deck before you've even played the game. It also has multiclassing, so you have to sit there thinking which of the classes work best in combination.So I spent the first evening just sitting there figuring out the decks for two characters until I came up with a busted build that can basically already beat the game. And then the game offers extremely few opportunities and even options to upgrade your deck (20 reward cards lmao), so you're pretty much stuck playing whatever you picked for however many dozens of hours a campaign takes.Not very engaging, either in terms of the starting experience, or in terms of progression in the game itself.>tl;drfrontloading sucks
Why don't I see anyone use 2d10 in their RPG systems?Despite its physical form being aesthetically unpleasing, it's a perfect physical RNG. There's a bell curve, AND each number has a whole number percentage chance of being rolled. And Nat 2s and Nat 20s each have 1% chance of being rolled.But no one uses it.Why???
>>98354255bell curves belong to normal distributions. normal distributions are continuous distributions, while XdY produces discrete distributions, where the underlying sample space is a countable set. meanwhile for normal distributions it is the real numbers and therefore uncountable.
>not using the superior version
>>98354255>how are 2d6 and 3d6 not bell curves?Distinct results that are not infinite and exponential can't form a bell curve. If you would like something that actually is approximating a bell curve you would need something like 30d20.
>>983542912d(0-9)+coinflip vs 2d(0-5)+1d10 is trully the khabib vs mcgregor (nonflushed) of our times
>>98354283>>98354315idk if you are getting into some kind of specific technicalities but when there is a central average and the further away you get from that the less likely the outcome is, thats what I think most people refer to a bell curve. Its used for money and stuff I believe and that is not infinite or continuous, those are discrete. Maybe there is a more proper term for discrete shit, but I think we know what we are referring too.
Do we really need like 6 different generals for MTG?
>>98351495We used to but since the massive change from being a game to being just a collectable, we should start consolidating. UB unironically killed the game, or at least the interest on tgMtga should still be separate though, if it even belongs on this board at all
>>98352496Elder dragon highlanderFucking newfag
Did the modern general actually die out? Lmao
>>98352895And thats a good thing!
>>98352693>PeopleYou're being too generous about the "puckee/what/game/what/system" subhuman concern trolls. They're subhumans that deserve to be executed in a public square.
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>>98354208I wanna say this doesn't really count as jewish because he was going to scoop anyway so really all you did was waste some of his timehe was going to lose either way so with regard to game state it wasn't really evil. or at least not moreso than Mindslaver usually is
>>98354208Rookie mistake was not conceding right before his turn started, and refusing to cut a deal or explain why.
>>98354208And what did everyone else at the table think?
>>98354259Reward matrix:>Spend turn getting mindslavered (lose)>Concede before turn starts (lose, but also fuck over the guy who played mindslaver since he's now down 10 mana)Hmm I wonder why people scoop.
>>98354019Honestly I don't care if I'm using a slop version of whatever if it's like 15 bucks cheaper you're damn right I'm gonna use a TNMT card instead of the regular. Only time I fall for the meme of art is if it's a character i specifically want on there like Inigo Montoya, or if the more expensive art has bigger boobs
How did you incorporate Negromancy into your games?https://i.4cdn.org/gif/1784063963979794.webm
Negromancy means black magic dude.
>>98353921One of my GURPS games had a character who was literally this gif (even his art was from the gif). He could summon negroes, and could mind control any monkey, gorilla, or black person he encountered. He ended up getting killed by Morbius's Morb Orb, and his negroes were gunned down.
>>98353921As a prestige class that requires a few levels in pimp, first. It's restricted to a race that has a natural INT penalty, so you don't see it that often.
>>98354470LOL.So who played literally Yakub?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=254nHzPXWjE>BEHOLD MY WHITENIZER RAYS! AND MY WHITE APES!Yakub Can suck out the melanin out of everything using his knowledge of magnets!
>>98353921Nigromancy? That’s just old school black magic. http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/amp/539/nigromancy-in-the-later-middle-ages
