Previous thread: >>97215703GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: What are some systems or you would like to include or see included in a campaign, but haven't been able to? They don't have to be the main focus of the game, having them only as something on the side is okay.
I'm kind of shocked the Gun Fu book still has that classic faux Chinese font. Wouldn't people on the left consider it very racist, despite the fact that it isn't?
For anyone that's played both GURPS and one of the 40k RPGs (Dark Heresy 2E, Only War, Rogue Trader, etc.) can anyone compare the two games? I've been trying to get my group into GURPS, but after some months of playing, I feel like I'm the only one who actually likes the system. My game will be ending in a couple of sessions more. After that, one of my players is going to start GM'ing for the first time, and he's invited me to his upcoming game.He's going to be running someone else's DH2E homebrew called "Sector X", set in the world of Girls' Frontline. Though I'm interested in the setting, I've looked through the rules for DH2E and Sector X and I'm rather unimpressed. There are a lot of rules that are lacking, to the point that he's had to ask me for advice when adjudicating things the book doesn't cover (like using non-abstract currencies or creating custom roles/backgrounds/homeworlds). I especially want to kill whoever came up with the idea of Aptitudes. It feels like such a huge step down from GURPS. But maybe it's not that bad in actual play. Does anyone have experience?
>>97342362I've played a variety of the FFG RPGS before. I don't care for them mechanically, mostly because of the d100 system. In GURPS, a person with a competent level of skill has about a 75% chance of succeeding a task, in FFG games that's 30-40%, unless you constantly are fishing for bonuses. The rules, like most non-GURPS rpgs, tend to collapse in on themselves the further you go from the core mechanics and gameplay, which makes homebrew always a risky proposition, as you've already seen for yourself. I also would say that if you are intending to run a game with tactical combat you should really do GURPS.Basically yes, its as bad as it looks. I love the FFG games but as games they aren't amazing, its the quality of the rulebooks and amazing theming that makes them fun, not the core d100 mechanics.
>>97342362I played only war back in the day.It is a huge step down from GURPS, while also being just as complex if not more in play. I can't imagine someone going from a gurps campaign to a 40k rpg and thinking it's gonna be an improvement.Everything you can do in only war you can do in gurps, but easier, better, and with deeper gameplay.
>>97342456>>97342465Ah, then it looks like I'm in for a rough one. Thanks for the responses, anons.
Have you seen this Primarch edition>Previous Heresy: >>97313986>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97342103oh oops the master sergeant lernaens have a heavy flamer, not conversion beam cannon
>>97339868Going to use it as a Daemonic steed for my chaos lord. >>97340383Thanks.
Has anyone tried out nemesis bolter recons/nemesis bolter scouts? If so, how do they stack up against each other/in general?
>>97342103Huh damn. Having marines attack while SA or other faction defends. You might be onto something
>>97340767Hell yeah more domitars. How did those do? I like their vibe this edition and was considering grabbing a few now they're no longer obviously terrible, but I haven't seen them on the tabletop yet.
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. And as we enter this happiest and newest of years, remember: 2e was never an old-school game, bait is for reporting, and fish is for smoking! Happy new year, grogs!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.
>>97342028For a guy who thinks his games are "real", you have a weird thing of not realizing who's doing the "real" dick slurping.Waxing poetically about sandbox play and calling it exclusively Gygaxian while you have your own dick in your mouth isn't a good look bruh.
>>97342014There's a list in DM's n00b guide in the OP.
>>97342006>>97342138Only semi-related, but I actually get a bit concerned about people who try to describe their games as "real" or "more real."Rushing right past any delusions or questions of sanity, I'm actually concerned about outdated design concepts such as GDS/GNS theory, and almost always it's just someone who is just taking everything from a heavily "Simulationist" approach.Its very easy to focus exclusively on only the positives of one of the three legs of the stool while only focusing on the negatives of the other two, which is largely why most internet arguments over GNS devolved into flame wars between people arguing which leg is the most superiorest ever, all while they sat on heavily slanted stools.
>>97342299>If you desire verisimilitude you're mentally ill, am winnerAlright retard, back to the naughty corner with you and take your paste bucket with you.Clearly you can't be trusted to play nice with other people yet.
>>97342390Verisimilitude is good, but you don't get that with just a purely "Simulationist" approach. You even agree, considering you play some sort of D&D, and the D&Ds, in general all tend to skew towards Gamist when all RPGs are weighed. So, it's hardly even worth arguing with you over whether Simulationist-gamist is somehow supposed to be inherently superior over Narrativist-gamist (especially since the arguments over superiority are always idiotic). But, this is all using a model that is essentially two decades out of date, which is actually why I find people who subscribe to a "Simulationist" approach somewhat concerning. It sometimes feels like looking into another doctor's bag and seeing "Balancing the Four Humors" as their only reference.
Previous: >>97330846I just think she's neat edition>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the ruleshttps://mtgcommander.net">committeeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
RULES QUESTION Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan>Whenever Felothar enters or attacks, you may sacrifice a nonland permanent. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.Experimental Confectioner>Whenever you sacrifice a Food, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with “This token can’t block.”If I sacrifice an existing food to Felothar, does the Confectioner trigger happen and create a rat who gets one of the 1/1 counters, or does Felothar's fill ability resolve before the rat is created?
>>97342505They're authentic magic cards yes that's why gold border cradle has valueBtw once brackets becomes mainstream b2/b3 tournaments follow and that's when wotc will finally make gold borders tourney legal
>>97342523I didn't say anything about piss boarder.
>>97342524It's an >ESL doesn't understand what examples areepisode. Man I love reruns!
>>97342527Thanks for admitting your LGS business model is being a cafe for nerds btw, roru rumao
This thread is dedicated to all kinds of solo games, systems, tools, and campaigns.Fail Forward Edition.>Last Thread: >>97062042Resources:https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/orhttps://desuarchive.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/type/op/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97338001I believe people were upset about the author. Something about him selling a special edition accessory that was just a blank notebook?
>>97338051I've got the expansion content myself, its fun stuff!
>>97295296yeah I've been playing weasel-tech lately, really good funalso got back at AATDW. I was in the middle of a crawl when I dropped it a few months ago, this time decided to quit looking for so many rules and just run with things as they came up. turned into a massively fun exploration of a tomb-turned-honeypot space station that resulted in it rejecting me completely and trying to purge me. I made it back to Karum with 150 rads and 1 tank of oxygen. I think I was trying to treat it more like ker nethalas or any other strict dungeon crawler instead of an rpg. once I stopped that and got loose it was a great time. I'm going to screw around on karum for a little bit, I had started some corporate espionage rumors last time
What system are you currently playing?What kind of game is it? Hexcrawl, dungeon crawl, journaling, etc.?What setting are you playing? Fantasy, Sci-fi, etc.Are you running a solo character or a party?
>>97341351I'm in the middle of playing something different.My last game was hexcrawling and dungeon crawling, the scenario was fantasy using FATE, OPSE and Mythic 2.Now I'm in the process of learning new tools and games, I'm trying Glide, The Nomicon for exotic names, and some sweet tables I recently found, stuff from Gregorius21778, Atelier Clandestin and the Ultraviolet Grasslands solo oracle hack. One table set I'm loving nowadays is Random Tables Compendium by OrkishBlade, it is a free-gratis one, and the quality is top-notch, covers so many bases.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bgN1rKdKJwwN9wYidsDCMUPcTR_mRlRy/view?pli=1
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97342203>OccasionallyMost EU nations have more American equipment than native. Anyway what do you want from them it's been 53 years since America has seen a symmetrical war, what else could they do but buy equipment they can't join a war on our side thanks to lack of war.Who is America's most loyal ally then?
Napoleonic Wars enjoyers: How would you feel if you played against someone's Imagi-Nation? Assuming it had fully developed uniforms, flags, heraldry, etc.? pic unrel
America is Republican RomeEurope is the Hellenistic worldIt's only a matter of time
I think America is America. Things are generally themselves and not other things, that's how existing works.
Besides Shadowdark, are there any other TTRPGs that have playable goblins?
>>97338837>>97339737>>97340050I'd eat a goblin. Not in a sexual way. Like legit cook over a spit and consume. It sounds sexual but it's not. Like for dinner. Something about green skin just looks tasty.
>>97340557Thicc sex creature.
green sex
>>97291116Is my gobbo design okay?
>>97341430Cool chad gobbo.
What is the counterculture of 2020s, that could be used as the basis for a contemporary countercultural tabletop game?Take the World of Darkness for example, which was so grounded in the the counterculture of the 90s that it comes across as dated and strange today. How would you update the World of Darkness so that it better represents the counterculture of today?Nightmare Mode: Talk about more than just politics. There's more to rebellion against the status quo and the prevailing social norm than who you vote for.
The problem is that there is an actual group of people who have their own subculture based around personal expression and the government wants to wipe them out. So there's an obvious correct answer to this question.But it's trans people and a lot of this board has made hating trans people a big part of their personality.
>>97323111>Digital detox and offline connection>Where is it happening>OnlineAmazing.
>>97341858>the government wants to wipe them out. So there's an obvious correct answer to this question.>But it's trans peopleBig if true (it's not)
>>97324019You advocate for the kingdom of conscience and I reject you as the moralist scum you are.
>>97334222>a-actually the government of the most bloated military superpower in the world is so l-le based and punk!!NTA, but do you unironically believe the military of the United States of Israel is working towards the goal of white supremacy?
Is your character the type to hit on barmaids?
>>97337982>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1kiihss/artcomm_sarah_pheltan_barmaidtavern_wench_by/https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/sUNE9rziWzq0VmQQskuT0A/>21 times since May 2025
>>97337982>This post is extremely low quality>trolling outside of /b/
>>97337982This looks like shit, and even the redditors agreed, lol.
>>97338585based
>>97341653Too bad the mods don't care.
What is your setting's game's tax policy in your game in your setting?
>>97342225And your docks would be fantastically burned for it
so...how is this thread different to the 'non combat role' Breaking Bad thread that was just deleted?they're the same format of 'pretending-to-be-/tg/ (topic) + (off-topic media screencap) example'.i know it's an excuse is to discuss the non-/tg/ topic or whatever is in the screenshot, that's my point. there's been some Zelda spanking fetish thread up for days lol
>>97335725I second that. My players would rather consider burning NPC's shop instead of giving them a bribe that's less than 0.1% of their collective wealth
>>97337014>Holy shit, you really are clueless, rather than pretending to be retarded.holy shit you truly are retarded aren't you? Dismissing the rest of the post like that because you get owned right after the first point. roflmfao
It actually featured pretty heavily in a few games of mine. The last one was because they took over a large fortress town that historically controlled several smaller town.To get the nobles to agree to their leadership, they abolished income taxes (which had been 40%). And instated a 25% donation to a public works fund for all transactions guaranteed by the king (who was also a banker). These funds would be used for roads, hospitals, food banks, disaster recovery, etc. Any unused funds from the previous year would be refunded at the end of the current year.And then they had to negotiate taxes and import/export duties before the outlying towns would support them. Not what I planned, but was still a good time.
Do you ever go all out and plan the ecosystems of your dungeons?
>>97339869Why do you think a Giant Rat in fantasy is the size of a full-grown sheep? Have you ever played Elder Scrolls: Oblivion? That's a typical Giant Rat size, Oblivion.
I prefer my dungeons to be inhabited by gothicc women.
>>97329956>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1iv9cje/artcomm_dire_rat_by_patricia_pria/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/DWKceAGwMjjcUqPuhXKPJg/>24 times since February 2025
Good god, this looks like shit.
Honestly I feel like someone designing a megadungeon kind of has to do this.
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>>97341146Bnuuy!
>>97332501Slaangor
>>97341170that's a weird-looking night elf
>>97341146>>97341170Possible lora idea
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Lilith Hall editionPrevious Thread: >>97325390================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97341937Its been a thing since 2nd edition as in when it became Battletech and not Battledroids?
>>97341937Goes back to 2E
>>97341937I've actually seen devs talk in the CGL discord that the heat for standing is going away because no one likes it and it's constantly forgotten about.
>>97342112I kind of do agree with them on that regard. Its mainly a rule that I've found that people who have been playing for decades have never been aware that it exists and if you're encountering rules like that you need to ask yourself should it even exist in the first place? When it is applied it tends to have extremely minimal impact on gameplay as well so that's another factor against it existing.
>>97338761used for tricking spheroids, since they're too retarded to figure out how to invent air conditioning. and it seems to have worked for three centuries.
>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. 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, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>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_C02wErnFTQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97342175I was thinking of getting into it myself at one point but after a few weeks of research I was able to design an enclosure that would circulate lab grade air into even a studio apartment for less than $200, don't think it's an issue if you really want to do it
>>97342175yeah if you remove the toxic part of resin printing then w/e, just grab everything by hand, wash on the tap and clean. The problem is the constant paranoia of getting shit contamined all around
>>97342285you still need gloves, mask, care to not let resin spill anywhere, you can develop allergies even if you still do all of that, its a shit show
>>97342305Suiting up etc isn't really a big deal for me personally but it's never fun so I can see how that's a dealbreaker. Definitely handle chemicals with the respect the warning labels warrant and allergies do happen.>>97342175 >>97342291>I really wish they would focus on making demonstrably no smell safe resin>if you remove the toxic part of resinYou can't do that with the way Resin cures you'd need an entirely different compound altogether, keeping the smell is in fact a good thing because your nose is a very good early warning system that air quality is getting worse, in a lot of cases it's better than those VOC sensors because they're placement dependent.
So since we're talking about kitbashing plastic, I'm building a naval raider warband with picrel as artillery witch, death commando and trooper respectivelyAnyone got an idea on how i can kitbash a plastic annointed? No matter the range of courseKeeping in mind that for raiders I only need 2
Do all LGS smell really bad or is it just mine?
>>97341454Unremediated water damage. Check the ceiling tiles for stains, that's gonna be your explanation nine times out of ten.
>>97341332If your LGS has any other smell than paper and whatever they use to clean the floor, that's your local problem
Could have been much worse.
>>97341463And often the store just deals with it because the rent is cheap enough to survive.
>>97341332One of the few good effects of more normies getting into the hobby is that game stores are much better about enforcing some basically social norms than they were in the 90's and 00's. Back in the day a lot of neckbeardery was tolerated because these guys were vastly outspending the random normies and women they scared away. I only really smell BO at game stores now if I have make the mistake of going in during Friday night Magic.
