Wolves of the Space editionPrevious Thread:>>96781974Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bq
>>97213532Yes, actually; a /mydudes/ Craftworld called Katre-Kaan. Colours I have in mind are a forest/olive-y green with bone-white as the accent colour for helmets etc.Fluff I've got for them so far is they believe in returning the Eldar to their glory days, but unlike Biel-Tan who think the best approach is to kill everyone else, they're instead trying to build a sort of mini-empire in some corner of the galaxy for them and their friends to fuck off to and pretend everything else isn't happening, with their Craftworld parked in orbit above a maiden world. They're trying to convince other Craftworlds to join them, and also sending occasional piratical raids to find and take resources/treasures from lesser races to keep in their "empire". They're very chummy with Exodites. With the exception of the "requisition" raids, they're generally not openly aggressive but are VERY territorial about their domain and won't tolerate trespassers.
Sup GROG, me and my friend had our first game of 40K 4th Edition today. Lots of fun, but we had a few questions regarding melee combat.>Can you shoot an enemy model that's engaged in combat by another friendly unit?>Can you consolidate into another round of combat?>Passing a morale check after losing a combat just makes the squads pile in, right? And if so, does another round of combat happen?Maybe some of these answers are obvious but we missed them due to the heat of battle.
>>97215677>>Can you shoot an enemy model that's engaged in combat by another friendly unit?No.>>Can you consolidate into another round of combat?You can consolidate into contact, but combat does not start until the next round.>>Passing a morale check after losing a combat just makes the squads pile in, right? Yes.>And if so, does another round of combat happen?Not until the next Assault phase.
>>97216466>No.Even if the enemy unit is a monstruous creature or vehicle?>You can consolidate into contact, but combat does not start until the next round.As in next turn then?
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What are your experiences with in-game moral and ethical dilemmas and players saying, "At the climax of our journey, we turn around and leave"?I feel as though a lot of GMs' attempts at in-game moral and ethical dilemmas are unwittingly sabotaged by adventure inertia and players' desire to avoid saying, "At the climax of our journey, we turn around and leave."The way I usually see it structured, a bunch of antagonists stir up trouble. The PCs agree to help the locals. The party investigates some dangerous place or situation. Then, at the very end of the adventure, the PCs see that the antagonists have some vaguely justifiable reason for causing trouble.The above structure is perfectly fine (and indeed, I have used it many times myself as a GM), but where things get janky is when the antagonists sincerely plea for the PCs to just turn around and leave, and the GM earnestly expects this to be an option that should be seriously taken into consideration.I have never, ever seen this happen, for understandable reasons. Very, very few players want to say, "At the climax of our journey, we turn around and leave." It is much more common for the players and their PCs either work out a compromise with major concessions from the antagonists, beat up the antagonists, or both (i.e. beat up, restrain, work out compromise and major concessions from position of power).(Continued.)
>>97200672>They are actually all having such a good time they wouldn't want to wake up>No you cannot ask them shut up>Just Shut up and let us beSometimes people get so static in their thinking that they forget that lying exists
>>97200672At the climax of your post, I turn around and leave.
>>97202404Imagine if this entire scene was set up just to fuck with the PCs by the Fae, for entertainment and to see what they would do?>PC draws sword and attacks.>Entire Fariey court and victims all vanish, the players are stood in an empty field at dawn, with a small scruffy gnomelike fae in front of them, rolling on his back and giggling "Boy, I got you with that one!"
>>97201023>Orcs don't think its immoral to eat peopleOrcs do know that what they're doing is immoral, they just believe the gods would get bored and destroy the world if immoral shit stopped happening all the time. This is why they burn down orphanages, kick puppies, and slaughter nuns. The gods will it. And this is also why orcs will only speak words of love in hushed whispers beneath the roof of their hovel, if they did it out under the open sky (where the gods live) the gods would surely punish the orcs for daring to yearn for a life beyond simple marauding.Orcs are like that because they believe the gods hate them.
>>97216373I've almost had to stop having NPCs try to deceive or lie to my players a times because they just cannot understand that sometimes people might be trying to misdirect them or have a motive to lie to them. They just take everything my NPCs say at face value without question, and then if there's a conflict in what's happening vs what they said (Like when someone tells them that room is perfectly safe while cackling, then they walk in and the door slams shut while the ceiling starts lowering), they assume I made a mistake or forgot something. That the NPC intentionally lied to them never even crosses their mind.
Surprise Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97216366I played a guest character goblin tiefling necromancer and a friend played a goblin
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>>97216993We ran a short adventure where one player missed the first session and we created characters separately.He turned up with a goblin mastermind rogue while another PC was a hobgoblin mastermind rogue (bodyguard to my noble character). We decided to have hobgob fish new gob PC out of his jacket and subcontract the bodyguard job to her with the implication that there are more goblinoids in there if need be.
>>97217138In my world, goblins and hobgoblins are the same species, but with extreme dimorphism.
>>97217184Are females shortstacks or petite overall?
From the creators of Obojima, a third-party 5e setting directly based on Miyazaki and Ghibli films, on the official channel for Obojima:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sxd-p2Gaj5E>*video shows picture of gnoll*>As soon as you humanize the faceless monster, now, you got a huge problem. It ceases to become fantasy adventure. Keep monsters monstrous, cause you need to have things to kill. If you keep it cinematic and cartoony, you'll have a good time killing monsters. If you start getting into simulation, where...>*video shows more and more pictures of gnolls*>What is the howler culture? What is the nature of intelligence? And like, do they have a soul? And like, you're done playing fantasy game and now you're into the moral nature of our world and existential stuff.Are they right?
>>97217121super meat boy did nothing wrong
>>97216984>please gib views to my fledging youtube scamFuck off, grifter
>>97217121>Princess Kushana and Lady Eboshi did nothing wrong, all monsters must be destroyedThis must be that "media literacy" I've heard so much about.
>>97216984Traditional games?
The thing about "do not humanize the monsters is" is that you don't even need to ask. People literally never even think about it if the game just has you kill a bunch of evil demons and doesn't elaborate. DOOM is a best-seller every time without fail.But when you see someone, in some other game, make demons or monsters with internality and ability to change and start to insist that no there is NOTHING wrong with killing THESE demons they are ALL evil and just animals, that makes people try and see good in them. The more you frantically shout all monsters are evil always instead of just having it be a background fact that you don't need to worry about, the more it makes people go the author doth protest to much, methinks.
>>97171444 >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 and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97212971I like em.
I am busy printing a huge bits box for Gaslands so all my bros can build cool cars for free. I’m just that awesome a guy.
>>97210948Napoleonic style line warfare doesn't work with most fantasy settings, due to existence in most of them of more precise substitutes for artillery and line breaking units. You can't really have anything close to Napoleonic style warfare when the other side can put a wizard with Fireball on the field.
>>97211873Modelling wise? Absolutely. If you check out any reviews on historical miniatures any guy worth his salt is going to be going into some autistic details over what is done right and wrong. Sometimes getting into arguments with commenters over historical accuracy of their claims. With sources. Rules wise it is much more relaxed.
>>97212059I love MFZ for the idea, but the implementation fucking sucks. You'd think building around Lego sets you would see some serious mech creation rules that reward you for going out of your way in designing some fun miniatures instead you get anemic rules right romp that is at best good for introduction into wargaming and then forgotten.
Stories, art, don’t care. Post it or don’tWhite human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realm
>>97210899>russian accentkek my sides
>>97195837That's a very cute and based artstyle, Anon. Nice job!>off-meta character buildAlso quite based.
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>>97187485>*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*glug*BUUUURRRRRRRRRPPP
>>97217161Without even a glance at you she just emptied the jug of beer the tavernkeep had barely even served you.How do you respond without sounding mad?
The Three Emperors EditionPrevious thread:>>96939608>Thread Question:Do you plan any big projects for the next year already?>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.
>>97214616Plz help. I would actually like to start painting minis instead of gooning to long dead, and very inbred queens
>>97215763Fuck off, slopfag.
>>97215794Cry to a janny, faggot
>>97214119Warlord is to cheap to hire good sculptors.
Thoughts on the BP Epic Waterloo stuff? I had never payed much mind to it because Waterloo is not a campaign that I'm that interested, but a bunch of guys at the club have been playing it and I found a couple of second hand starter sets for very cheap. I'm seriously tempted to get the Prussian starter and join them. They also play with the ACW stuff.Btw the new captcha is fucking stupid.
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.
>>97212864Pretty much opinion exactly. It was pretty funny though how fast the excitement over 8th (oh thank god, 7th is dead at last!) turned to disappointment as it rapidly turned into its own form of debacle.
I remembering 1000pts of Eldar tabling 3000 pts of nids. I remember Eldar tabling Orks turn 1, fellow took out 100s of models, and didn't play a single one. We had a statewide tourney and the top 25 were all Eldar.
>>97213029Seconding a request for that
>>97186108There's an 8th Edition?! I stopped following the sales driven Churn in the 90s, have done my own thing and am I'm still enjoying playing 3rd-4th edition even today. Lets hope GW doesnt keep shitting out even more editions every couple of years, right? Imagine how sad you would have to be to just keep buying countless even shittier rules books just because the game company says you have to, to continue to play the game you already own and enjoy, right? LOL.
>>97214830It's crazy how long Eldar dominated the game so much so that GW's serious attempt at balancing marines was to just make them chunkdar. 9/10 if an Eldar player asked you for a game beforehand you were better off going to the hobby table/home instead of wasting your time putting down models you'd be picking up turn 1-2.
Valakut editionPrevious: >>97129473>News & RemindersWorld Championship 31 won by Seth Manfield (Izzet Lessons, United States, he/him)Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6From November 18, 2025–January 19, 2026 Golden Packs will temporary contain cards differently than before due to "various pieces of internal nonsense"https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-december-15-2025>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQHave you played the brawl challenge, and if so, which commander?
>>97215231https://youtu.be/mYuF3T7s7XY
>Brawl lets me believe my shitty, poorly built deck is optimal because it has a high winrate>in reality I am insulated from good decks due to deck rating thank you wotc for making a system that benefits me specifically.
>>97215854meanwhile I make the worst deck I can make, monowhite no good cards, as low rarity as possible, no synergy at all. Still seeing galos, tergrid, magda, jodah, kenrith, go-shintai.
Look at turn 2 in pioneer:9/8 lifelink, haste, first strike, menace, trample, ward 2one of your permanents got exiled alreadybut hey you could be dead by now if it would be leyline
>>97217169this dude was rank #80 with it too
Out on Patrol 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.
>>97209931The newly established Mughal government in Delhi is trying to focus on achieving unity across the empire. After Bahadur Shah II died in 1862, his son Mirza Mughal was crowned as Akbar III. Greatly influenced by lemurian mysticism, he is planning to continue the project of his ancestor Akbar I, the “Din-I Ilahi” philosophy of unity and harmony between the different faiths of the subcontinent, now intertwined with lemurian mysticism. The difficulty of lemurian mystics and lords is difficult to quantify, though many within the top ranks of his administration are of lemurian origin. This is worrying many non-lemurian lords and nobles, as the tendency to blindly follow prophecy makes them passive followers of fate in their eyes.
We could probably tie this lore a bit more with the lemurian one. Any suggestions how?
Also, for the option of a neomughal book, here are some tokens and units I've made. I do need to add more lemurian-related stuff, so any ideas would be appreciated. >>97194909>Brahmin-ProphetDo you have any idea for the unit's art?
What makes a setting don't feel generic a.k.a. not DnD?
>>97195303>safehornyDid the culture change so much? How am I supposed to depict deranged mad mage? What wouldn't be safehorny nowadays, something that would scream 'I am deviant'?
>>97191173So what you're saying is, to separate your game from D&D, all you have to do is proclaim to your players, "Alright gang, in this setting, everyone has nice tits". Is it really that simple?
>>97216952>What wouldn't be safehorny nowadays, something that would scream 'I am deviant'?making the sexy female character canonically underage
>>97216969Precisely. This guy >>97200938 said it already but just compare current year fantasy art compared to stuff from the 1930s to '80s
>>97196293Dragon's Dogma AD&D but with monster hunter controls.Dungeon Meshi AD&D but with cooking.So maybe add more than just basic D&D. Classic AD&D is a great base for your fantasy world/setting/game etc. Just add more to it other some power fantasy BS. Hell people love the basic setting, so if you changing stuff from it. Don't make it worse, look at Woke DND settings and games. Sure you have activists and tourist defend it, but they won't play or buy the games now. Hell will be honest, sometimes not changing much can be a good thing too. Since everyone want to change it so it feel unique and not like D&D they make it worse, and shocker people like the D&D feel. Maybe sometimes just go with it.
What "magical realm" and edgy stuff do you like including in your RPGs?For me is forceful genderbending spells that can't be undone.
>>97153880For me it's polygyny and default female bisexuality. In most settings this is trivially justifiable by a huge portion of young men getting themselves killed adventuring, soldiering, by marauding monsters, etc.Also cat/fox/wolf ears.
>>97153880What is the context of that image? Is not a battle book right?
>>97213553How do you feel about scheming evil kobolds? Cause I might have a story for you...
>>97215754I think of kobolds as redundant discount gobbos only good for midget tossing challenges, but I'll admit that's just because I'm still very pissed at my very first DM always playing them like vietcongs and killing off my characters back in the early 90s. So, I'm always up for a story in which they get btfo.
>>97153880I am so terrified of my players pointing out magical realm that my NPCs generally point the exact opposite direction, meaning we have settings full of tittymonsters who treat other people with respect.
How do you justify a "pest race" like goblins or rat people in your setting? Why wouldn't the dominant species make a concentrated effort to eradicate them if they were a problem?
>>97216563There are zero genders.There are two sexes though.>>97217034Intersex people are intersex. It's in the term. Still not a third sex, just a mutation. To even consider it a third sex, intersex would have to have reproductive capabilities that differed from the two sexes, such as functional testes and functional ovaries at the same time.
>>97213989>How to you justifyI don't.Have you tried not having crippling autism?
>>97213989Unfeasible pre-industrialization and profitable during early industrialization because magnates realized that tiny adults of a race everyone hates being tossed between gears causes far less outrage and worker protests than using children of other races.
>>97215305Are in most of my setting, though the dragonborn nations have a history of keeping them as a low-caste population and footsoldier crop.
>>97216392fuck off you fucking retarded colorfag, moss changes color based on a lot of factors but you will always be able to tell the good moss from the bad killing moss if you eat it. It's the DUTY and HONOR of the moss collector to die for his warren to make sure there is no mass poisoning incidents. YOU ARE A DISGRACE
Hey /tg/ here's the origins and explanation of the xenomorph and its setting.-Explains the Weyland Yutani world and offers a bonus animated story-Explains various features of the xenomorph such as how it actually sees without eyes-Explains HR Giger and Dan O Bannon's original inspirations for the xenomorph-Explains logically how the xenomorph is closer to the truth and is a combo of 2 civilizations.-Provides 3 entire civilizations for the xenomorph-Shows images of what the real xenomorph homeworld looks like and its bestiary-Links to 1 extra bonus document explaining the Space Jockey's world.-Great music fitting the atmosphere of the setting throughout the document.-Great artwork along with the explanations.Enjoy. May you use this setting and explanations in your own games well.https://heyzine.com/flip-book/6bd0377d5c.html#page/6Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97186381What's sauce for this?
Didn't the Alien RPG actually have you analyzing and exploring planets and doing actual miner work like in Outland 1981?
>>97203181All the information in the world cannot help a tiny mind that cannot contain it. Maybe you need cartoons to keep yourself entertained
Anyone here could spruce it up a little. Most of the info is barely 2 pages long at the beginning, middle and towards the end, excluding the little story that's just the same thing at the middle but in a much longer story format and not that good, I much prefer the raw info.
I roll d20 to wear the perfect organisms' skin like armour. If above 10 I wear it succesfully, if below 10 I get raped by it, if 20 I get to fuck the suit.
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>>97216998There really is no way to play dwarves that is not cancer.This makes them based and true grognard choice.>>97217027Yeah but bullies are extra upgrade.
>>97217041When you add an orc that makes it an orc unit.
>>97216707He seems to be one of the Blizzard guys most inspired by Warhammer pic being some random art he did on his own
>>97215994I personally really like the other gimmicks the miners bring to the table to want to totally remove them as a unit, but something like for every unit of miners you can pay 1ppm for another unit to follow them down the tunnel and arrive at the same time/place would be cool. Similar to the skaven drill weapons team.>>97216968Pretty much this. It's a free upgrade to shield and choppa boys that gives you more flexibility. In a worst case scenario it's lobbing out a few arrows a turn and you can stand and shoot, while if you get an early objective you can just volley fire into chaff units or blocks of infantry while retaining board control.
>>97217027I love the detail that orc bullies are those that are too old or crippled to go into fights. So they just let the gobbos have it instead, lmao
