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!Last thread: >>97165346Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5 (embed) (embed)https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/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.
>>97344545I don't even remember where exactly the specifics of the design came from. They're obviously bugs and their queens are based on termite queens, but stuff like the head-crests and the long cerci on the males just came about at some point while I was working on the design. Tbh the head-crest is a pain in the ass to draw consistently at different angles and I kind of regret it.They're probably my favorite species in the setting because the design came about a bit more organically, while a lot of the other species have a pretty obvious theme with the design. And also because I think it's fun to draw a bunch of completely non-humanoid bugs in fancy clothing.
Let's see if this rooster works for the 16th century.## HUMANS## CELESTIAL-TOUCHED or FALLEN ONES (Aasimar)1. Angel-Touched (Standard)2. Lamassu-Descended (Ancient Guardians)3. Sphinx-Born (Riddlers)## INFERNAL-TOUCHED or MARKED ONES (Tieflings) 1. Cambion-Blooded (Standard)2. Gorgon-Cursed (Serpent-Touched)3. Lilitu-Born (Night-Children)## ELEMENTAL-TOUCHED (Genasi)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97311994>Do you have any interesting alchemical ingredients or magical components for spells?I would love to include more of these, but all of my players have grown up playing 3e, 4e and 5e and refuse to use spell ingredients for the games since "we're only playing a few levels anyway, it's not like we're going 1-20".
>>97351178Consider adding Blemmyae, Mermaids, Selkies, Rakshasa / Oni, Bastet-Kin/Leopard-people.
>>97348579No, like commercial drug names. Shit like Tramadyl or Melakonin.
>>97317329You are like little baby.
>>97354545Anyone who claims 2nd is the peak of 40K is genuinely delusional.t. Loves 2nd.
>>97354607For me it was the sheer bulk of the codex compared to later offerings. The first 25 pages were lore, each unit had paragraphs of background, short stories scattered throughout, the art... It was fucking incredible to my teenage nerd self. Really activated my neurons.
>>97354654Not saying the edition was bad, just that it wasn't as good as 4th. Would still give it the silver medal.And yes, codexes were indeed great, certainly more fun to read than the early 3rd ones and anything from 5th and onwards.
>>97354487>but I miss clan optionsFair enough, my orks have always been evil sunz/kult of speed so that book covered just about everything I could ever want
Enlightenment achieved only through overprinting your value 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 RulerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353246>symmetric or assymetric.whats this?>2nd big question is VPs or HPs.whats this?
>>97354195Symmetric: all players play with the same rulesAsymmetric: players have different rules they must follow VP: reach a certain amount of points to winHP: send your opponents points to zero to winI spoonfed you, now make an effort and go play more card games before thinking of making one
>>97354207my game is a symmetric VP
>>97338653>Ignition / Main-phase effectswhat does it mean?
>>97353093It's called "Mushi Jingi" (蟲神器)
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>>97354636Yes, but you can only verify that after you "signed the contract" and who knows what hidden clauses it might have the other heroes didn't know that their souls would be damaged from shoving in too much power, so who knows what tricks Mortius could put inside. And even if some of Mortius claims are found out to be false? What are they going to do just quit? No they are probably going to be too invested, too greedy for the reward, the power and will continue the job anyways.
>>97354619>Yeah god trickery is bad. Like you can't even know if Mortis isn't actually just lying to you. You believe his words the same way the other heroes believed their gods. For all you know he might be sending you to kill off totally moral and good people and he just fabricated those profiles to trick you into killing these innocent people.That was a concern I had, too. However, the fact that Mortius has boons and personnel from the gods of Nature, Order, Sky, Beauty, and Time imply that he's at least a legitimate member of this world's pantheon.I suppose it could still be an organized invasion by a whole pantheon of gods, but as other anons pointed out, you do have a chance to investigate and propose alternate solutions.
>>97354660True, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's letting us pick the setup and then just deal with the target however we see fit. He, notably, freely admits that killing them is NOT required, and even explains how to do banish them without hurting. He doesn't insist that the death is the only option (like gods did with Slaver and Demonlord) nor tries to keep us in some bubble of ignorance away from everyone (Tinkerer). Even his optional requests are reasonable (don't let the kingdom crumble, find a way to keep the schizo locked up) and not "bonus points for skinning them alive" like the sort of quests dragon evolver has.
>>97354688>What are they going to do just quit?Yeah quitting is possible and there's even a companion who quit their contract on one of the targets.
>>97354688Now you are just being obtuse for the sake of it. You are assuming your boss is lying to you for some reason, even when nothing stops you from just taking the easiest mission and then fuck off with rewards. Or you know, simply not play.If you can't trust the simple premise and assume you are being lied to then there is no reason to even accept the job.
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
97343362You have not read, played, gm'ed nor played the game and it shows by a huge margin.If you stoped at the first page I would understand how much of a clueless throatless fucker full of oil you are
>>97343420A Modest Proposal
>>97347908>I don't want to alarm you, but when you were a baby you shat and pissed yourself all the time...don't be so high and mighty with me because I wear diapers and get horny when it overflows with my own feces...
>>97351612Hi newfriend, I noticed your post has some errors and wanted to give you a welcoming tip to help you with future posts on 4chan.org. To properly reply to posts, make sure to click on the long string of numbers at the top of the post. If you hover your mouse over it, it should say "Reply to post" after a second. If you click on it, you'll create a direct link to the post you're replying to. Hope this helps. Enjoy your stay!
>>97343357monopoly or battleship.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere.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.
>>97354440>HE IS STILL GOINGlmao
>>97354462>FISHFAGISREALFISHFAGISREAL>"excuse me, what does this have to do with-">"SHUT UP FISHFAG"
>>97354473Off you fuck, fishfag.In the last few hours, fishfag created TEN /osrg/ threads, all with modified OPs, all with "Gygaxian" omitted, just to troll /osrg/. This is one of them. Check for yourself here:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/osrg/DO NOT ENGAGE.DO NOT REPLY TO FISHFAG'S PROVOCATIONS EXCEPT BY TELLING HIM TO FUCK OFF OR KILL HIMSELF.
>>97354157He's right: you should kill yourself, fishfag.
>>97354516>still goingLmao. Saying the sky is green enough times does not make it true.Do keep broadcasting the schizo behavior to the board, it's funny.
>finally get to play Enemy Within>it's just endless fightslopWhy do people like this shit again?
>>97327331lol
>>97327331i heard of it three times this week. never knew it before that. someone is astroturfing
>>97327331i've heard of it because several posters (i'm sure) in the past few weeks have brought up the exact same magazine article about it.in over 15 years of /tg/ prior to that, i'd never heard of it. must be one of those Mandela thingies.
>>97327306WH usually is fight oriented, what were you expectingcompetent and willing GM might skew this a little into more plot oriented
>>97342877>Watch the GM roll dice with himself for 4 hoursRetarded nogames.
How do I get my players to stop calling everything dwarf related "digslop"?
this is very funny to me
>>97354605You do not play games and you do not belong here. Please fuck off back to plebbit or twatter or whatever gay fuckpit you spawned from.
>>97354630Of course the dorfslopper would know about gay pits lmao
>>97354435First you have to get actial players instead of making up fake stories on the internet. And to do that you need real friends. So the first step you're looking at to solve your problem is putting some effort into making yourself less of an unlikable shitposting jackass.
>>97354655Sorry that happened but you should probably stop crying about groodgeslop with a bad scotish accent being mocked.
Any good RPGs for doorkicking combat? Something kinda slick but hyper lethal, letting the PCs take down most mooks pretty quickly but always having the chance to lose it all with poor tactics. I've been running RED and it feels a bit pillow fisted but my group is afraid of RPGs from before the turn of the millennium
>>97348532>*I'm a thief and a rat bastardftfy
>>97349799Funny how the venn diagram of scummy thieves and "people" with a stick up their ass about piracy is just a circle within a circle. It's ALWAYS the case, like every fucking time.
>>97349714Retro Sci-fi isn't a supplement
>>97347315>Any good RPGs for doorkicking combat?PCCS has for intro scenario SWAT team entering meth labit checks all your boxes if by "quickly" you mean with one good bullet hit, not in seconds of gameplayunironically post, I did GMd this twice actually
>>97354519OP HerePost a link for a free pirated copy of this right now or you're a shill bot.
New year new me edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.You can discuss Shadowrun here too because I also feel bad for those guys.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates):bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353981Kids these days with their Invention and their Upgrading and their i don't know what. Back in my day we got 1d6 turns of bodge-job repairs or alterations, and we damn well liked it. Mostly because it wasn't CP2013's Scrounge, which is largely used for grubbing up more parts to flog for cash.
>>97348031>There are bad games that don't deliver on the genre premises.Woah... Dude, no way...
>>97354053Yeah Medtech is even worse with Surgery being useless and Cyro/Pharmaceuticals capping out in usefulness pretty early.They should be streamlined similar to Techs getting all their specializations for free and Surgery and Medical Tech becoming normal skills they get a Bonus for along with the other medical skills like Paramedic, First Aid and Cybertech
>>97353910It seems like the general EMP effect is set at Cyberware DV15 and disables 2 pieces of the ref's choosing. Now I used to scoff at this low DV but only recently did I realize nobody puts points into Cyberware outside of the tech/medtech and maybe put 4-5 points in TECH (gotta max out REF, DEX, and COOL for combat optimization baybey) so suddenly EMP can be insanely dangerous and only nat 10's can save you.The Rostic Kleaver has the on fire effect, ignores armor effect, and bonus 1d6 damage effect so I wonder if there is one more bonus ability that could be squeezed in, especially since this is a 5,000eb tier weapon?Also you could make your own brand, become the next Eren Malour.
Why do some of you want Cyberpunk to play like an MMO? We already have Elflines.
Sewer 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.
>>97354262>I've heard very good things about itBut aren't the creators gay and YouTubeslop posters?
>>97354421I judge things on their quality not the identity politics of their creators. From what I’ve briefly read it looked fine. There are plenty of other books out there if that sort of thing bothers you.The undying war campaign has a 5e version on drive thru rpg made by Troll Lord Games for example.
I am making a more OSR Survival type rule set for 5e>Just play another gameI know others, this is just for the stubborn "I only play 5e" types.The overall goal is to make it play with more of a focus on resource management, day to day survival, and making threats actually a threat.Change so farShort Rest takes 8 hours. This can be sleep, relaxing, or a downtime activity. At the end of the 8 hours you can spend HD to recover HP as normal, and recover your other SR abilities. Sleep still needs to happen every 24 hours. Depending on the conditions of sleep you can get bonuses like rolling a free HD to recover HP or get back a single HD.Long Rest for HD recovery takes a full 24 hours off. You can do this during a Downtime day and be active but not adventuring during the day.Rations and living costs are actually used, not an extra rule just something that should be enforced. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353760so if a party member ends a fight with 2hp, he will ask someone to knock him out, so he can regain 1d6sounds a bit silly
>>97354669You misread it
Keep going edition >Previous Heresy: >>97332279>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.
>>97352929take off the rose glasses. look at lists back then, play a game against 7th heldrake spam. you can go die on that hill with actual reasons and not "muh angel of death"
>>97354221Valdor isn't autistic, he's a psychopath
>>97354299Yes, and that is why to be fully realistic, Lobo has his space dolphins, Hitler had his animals and Valdor needs a Sangi to feel like a proper psycho.
>>97349049The good shit got deleted, anon.The trick with the purple site is to click 'download' on all the good shit you see, so that it registers as "purchased" and this way you are able to download the file even if it got deleted. The purple site remembers.I still have nuscale MkIV on my list this way. Same for a lot of other stuff that got purged by James. Were we not on an anonymous and publicly viewable imageboard, I would have sent some over. But alas.
>>97354628I wish, that before I die, 3d printing without using resin becomes good enough for at least stuff like tanks. I want to play a 100% vehicles company. Predators, Kratos, Vindicators and maybe speeders as scouts/recon.
Thread dedicated to Sci-Fi based discussion. 40k need not apply. [\spoiler]How goes your sci-fi setting, anon? I am currently running a Traveller game in a homebrew setting, and am getting lost in the sauce of stellar physics.
>>97352667Here are my rules1. FTL travel is only possible with a real sentient person controlling the ship. Don't try brain in a jar, it backfires.2. FTL communication inside of a solar system is possible, but only through some fairly expensive infrastructure.3. The vast, vast majority of information is carried by courier ships who must make the FTL travel by themselves.4. There is instant FTL galaxy-wide communications available, but only the big giant ancient asshole alien empire knows how to do it, and only those people extremely, extremely high up get to use it. This typically takes the form of pre-recorded video messages. A live holo-link with a member of the Imperial Court means someone on the other side of the call really fucked up. Humans (aka players) have access to this tech, but can only send very simple text messages, like telegrams, can be vulnerable to distortion, it's not reliable.I like the feeling of Traveller "Age of Sail" communication, but I also want to leave myself open to other stuff.
>>97352643>I've never been able to find a system with space combat I likeSounds like you haven't looked very hard. Or have extremely autistic needs.
>>97354109I basically want something fast and abstract. Give everyone one or two actions to do something and get back to the game. Delta V can suck my balls.
>>97350282it's growing on itselfnew PCs gets mission to find older PCs missing (duke with important princess NPC) in same sector, still plenty of exploration left; best thing it is probably easier to fit new PCs in setting as it grows, I get that feel anyway>>97351748>Traveller isn't hard sci-fi in the slightest so there's no need to worry about it.has this feel for most players; have yet to try 2300AD
working on a sci-fa system for my friends :) this is the latest draft>https://files.catbox.moe/drgabx.pdfthey've made a robot esper and an arborian smuggler. i'm gonna throw them in to a space station in the neutral zone where they have to try and stop a terrorist threat, and have that lead into a planet-hopping story similar to KOTOR, where every couple of sessions they'll collect a macguffin on one planet and fly to the next. we were supposed to play this weekend, but rescheduled to this week. i wanna test the leveling curve from level 1 to 10, some ground combat, space combat, social stuff, a couple of dungeon crawls, get them aligned with/hunted by different factions, go from zero to hero, maybe experience a death or two.
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.
>>97351627The diplomacy is the interesting part (to me). Livius writes some very entertaining speeches for the various Greek factions as the Romans and Macedonians vie for their support. Then there's the naval battles, naval siege, concerns for winter quarters and all that. The actual battles are very short, the maneuvering and planning is where it's most interesting. Suits itself to a campaign game more than single battles I'll admit.Alexander and the successors have some good battles. A great one is the siege of Tyre where they built a dam to the (then) island fortress, still visible today.>>97351443> Germans defeat the soviets by... surrounding them> Canadians defeat germans by...shooting at them as they walked forward> Hitler was defeated because...their lines were biggerWW2 warfare is just endless hordes of Shootmen smashing into each other. Boring!
>>97353957I took a shitty welding education and got a decent job that pays my bills and allows me to support my mother, can't live fancy but comfortably.
>>97352674What are these radical ‘fixes’ then? I’m genuinely curious. Worst-case scenario you give us all some pointless well-worn platitudes, at best you save some lives from waste.I think referring to depression as ‘mental weakness’ is pretty reductionist too - Lincoln, Churchill, Newton, Grant all suffered from awful depression and achieved great things - and that’s before we even get into all the great contributions to the arts made by people exhibiting this ‘mental weakness’.
>>97353733Lovely stuff.
>>97354566>mental weaknessNTA, but calling it weakness is entirely accurate. A man who can't pick up his infant son is just objectively physically weak (ie. less strong than expected for his species). A man who can't get arsed to get out of bed and provide for himself and his family is mentally weak (ie. less motivated or disciplined than expected for his species).And I'm saying this as someone who still "deals with depression" or whatever we're gonna call being a weak cunt.Acknowledging your weaknesses as weaknesses and flaws is a necessary step in overcoming them. People achieving things despite their weaknesses does not mean that they didn't have those weaknesses or that those things weren't weak, just that they overcame them or compensated.A deaf nigga that paints a nice painting is still deaf (ie. having extremely weak hearing).The cure for weakness is strength.
"Crusader, crusader, please take me with you" Edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97354229I think that depends very much on the context of both the army and how you're dividing your points. I'm also still a newguy, but I think in the case of cavalry you might want to field it in a single unit? I haven't looked that deep into the rules for cavalry, but I'd imagine for a powerful cavalry charge and staying power you might want to keep them together. A champion, musician and banner could in that case help out, especially if you're going to be using these dudes as your main offensive capability.To give an example of when I decided not to use a command set:With my Empire force I get to work with detachment rules, so I gave my main regiment of buffed up halbs two blocks of 10 missile troops as support. I don't expect them to get into melee (although that might still happen), and as two detachments for a buffed up regiment I opted for maximising firepower over giving those small blocks some very minor bonuses in the grand scheme of things.
>>97354229For me I ask myself "is it important this unit wins its combats, and especially the combats that might be close?"If the answer is yes I build command models.Example: I want my block of 15 gors in combats and I want them winning so I build command for the extra combat resolution.I dont care if my ungors with bows with a melee and dont ever expect them to, so I skip command for them
>>97354229Champion and musician are usually good to have on almost every unit. Champ especially is very valuable because of the challenge mechanic. Banners are not worth putting on units units whose role is to slow down and/or harass the enemy. Your enemy gets 50pts for every banner he/she captures so having a banner on a unit of 5 marauder horsemen almost doubles the point you give when they eventually die.
>>97354229Modelwise yes, because I like the look of it. But in terms of rules I wouldn't take banners for chaff or horsemen. The extra CR isn't going to help them in any meaningful way (unless I'm specifically going for some kind of magic banner) and when they inevitably do get killed they won't give out free points like candy. The musician is good on everyone imo.
>>97352318WFRP seems to have some of Prince of Aldorf as canon since Marius Leitdorf was the elctor count during that period and was a supporter of Karl Franz during the election for Emperor which lines up with Prince of Altdorf