What's the most "modern" a fantasy setting can feel without it feeling forced or weird?
>>97392985The one with the axe is an engineer/sapper.
Depends on what makes a given individual feel like something is "forced" or "weird".
>>97390879Right now. Fantasy has always been about present times, it's not like if Tolkien did it mostly in not! late antiquity we need to be on his boat.
>>97396825>Right now.Fantasy right now feels forced and weird though.
>>97390879I mean, I think generally any setting in today's world without changes is probably going to feel a little weird as a TTRPG, because it probably can't avoid contemporary political issues as framing for the setting. I think you could probably manage up to early 1900's (noir and gangster/prohibition themed games could be fun) or skip over modern and shoot for nearish-future (CP2077 as an example). I don't think anyone really wants to play a game framed by current politicians and blm riots or any of that bullshit.
Time to talk about weird monsters again.As usual, any rants about Bog will be treated as bait unless you have actual proof.
>>97392088You can give everyone arachnophobia now. Even the people who have never had it before.
anybody find it odd that bogleech didn't come in this thread yet? He did for the last two, but not this one
>>97395422probably got sick of this shit and decided not to bother anymore.oh well. bogleech if you are reading this please give us an updated exovoros
bogleech if you are reading this please add sexy demon women to mortasheen
>>97395740>please add sexy demon womenMore Devilbirds you say?
Smuggie edition>Previous Heresy>>97369180 >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.
>>97397730BETRAYALhttps://files.catbox.moe/ndkvi4.pdfMASSACREhttps://files.catbox.moe/dq2y60.pdfEXTERMINATIONhttps://files.catbox.moe/7vrcpv.pdfCONQUESThttps://files.catbox.moe/e6594d.pdfTEMPESThttps://files.catbox.moe/13sy18.pdfComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness - Volume Onehttps://files.catbox.moe/1m47l1.pdfFAQ - AoD Rulebookhttps://files.catbox.moe/08emwo.pdfFAQ - Liber Astarteshttps://files.catbox.moe/351lx9.pdfFAQ - Liber Hereticushttps://files.catbox.moe/0xfn5j.pdfFAQ - Liber Imperiumhttps://files.catbox.moe/5q5500.pdfComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
bonus round:Visions 1https://litter.catbox.moe/5jpjkd33rcv4n89m.pdfVisions 2https://litter.catbox.moe/bn2uo6c8bvh38um0.pdf
>>97397857>>97397882>>97397939Champion, thanks anon.
>>97394497They're still warcrime guns and have miserable accordions and full auramite, but Sagittarii and Ventarii definitely come as unusual sidegrades when the standard Custodian is just as well if not better equipped than a Praetor or Chapter Master. I'm not even entirely sure how you get around this since Custodes are all meant to be as flawless as the other despite unique gene-alchemy shenanigans, but another overlooked thing I think are the Armoury Thralls. They got fuck all for lore other than just being other guys also capable of keeping up and reloading guns mid-battle.
Silver Towerlets Edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97385116>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97397776I genuinely can’t tell if this is shitposting
>>97397904piss yourself
>>97397811Fair enough, oh well I'm sure the exodites will come soon enough. They'll run out of other eldar shitter subfactions at some point.Good luck with the ironjaws anon, their spearhead is pretty cool from what I've heard.
>>97396987You're not alone there.
>>97397738nta but you type like an absolute massive pseudo-intellectual faggot. Being pointlessly verbose doesn't make what you're saying more valid, it just makes you sound like a neckbeard arguing with women on twitter.
SCP editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97379160It's not marketed as a series of Legos to build my own scenario, and if it was, it would be fucking bad at that. It's marketed as a good king in yellow scenario, but what it actually is is a series of scenes where the keeper describes something creepy happening, and then you leave that room and go to another room where the keeper describes something creepy happening, ad infinitum. Detwiler is a great writer, I enjoy his DG fiction, but his scenarios are all the same shit, either a collection of cut scenes or a bunch of information that the PCs will have no way to find out or interact with, usually with a single, hyper specific thing they need to accomplish to get any kind of resolution. He does everything that every single person with half a brain will tell you is terrible gming, but people lap it up because he's been grandfathered in as a """""great scenario designer""""" because he worked on the original DG.
>>97364632>shotgun scenario about using ICE operations as a cover to finish off a ghoul cult that DG couldn't get rid of during the Biden years>players have to make regular drive rolls to escape Will Stancil's clapped out honda fit while boxing up captured ghouls into an unmarked fedvan>+20 to a persuade roll if they make a reference to Elon, GrokAI, or twitter while trying to evade confronting the "Lawyer, Master of Black People" without violence
>>97364572Want my honest opinion? Modern Delta Green should set its primary scenario as mankind nearing a state of potential apotheosis into a Mythos entity, purely because of our increasing violence, self-destruction, and careless pursuit of higher sciences. Have every act DG commits to save mankind be the exact same thing that's going to drive it to become something nightmarish. Have it be EASY for operatives to hide themselves, get gear, do what they want with impunity, but always make those methods disturbingly callous and wasting huge amounts of human life (that nobody seems to really care gets wasted). Make it so that sometimes, an operation succeeds purely because the entity they were pursuing realized how fucking dangerous earth is now, and decided to leave while the gettin' was still good.
>>97390337Sexo?
Moon edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97397199All Mythics might have been leaked.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1oxjWS_JRlA6jA5y2_iGFsyRVtSUrk_1fNqDRevkI6R0/htmlview
Return to Creature WorldHeavy focus on creatures that can be played as lands, or at least have landcyclingMadness but for Mill for Shield TriggersManga references and aesthetics
>>97396717It could, imagine if in 2027 we get a gacha UB like Genshin
>>97398002>It could, imagine if in 2027 we get a gacha UB like GenshinGacha UB, Kpop UB, TikTok influencer UB. The list goes on.
>>97398002>>97398030I don't know what would be worse, something like what you have mentioned or a UB of an IP that has one of the other major card games like Yugioh, One Piece or Pokemon specially if they don't get magic cards as well, can you imagine whoring out a maim set to one of your competitors?
Necromancy Edition>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/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97391407Had to do a raincheck but I'll be playing Black Grail and they'll be Iron Sultanate. I own some Antioch minis but we'll be doing it over TTS.
>>97393273Off the back of this, haven't even planned my warband yet, I'll figure it out today.
>>97391789I have a 40GB folder with lots of the official .slts that I found on the 7seas but I don't see the punt gun in there anywhere.You could just drop the file herehttps://litterbox.catbox.moe/and say that it deletes itself after 12 hours and then you're good. pretty please!
>>97393570Give me a day or so and I will see what I can do.
What do you guys think is the most horrific lore bit in Trench Crusade? Honestly, not in a dark way but in a really fucked up way. Skincrawl stuff.
Grogmas in the hive streets editionPrevious Thread:>>97019770Check 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
Made some with scythes too.
Hey fellas,i want to make a 2nd ed Ork army,Printing isn't an option, i know of knightmare and renegade 93, they're great but i can't build an army out of them alone.Do you guys have other recommended vendors?i'm looking for that kev adams feel.I saw warblade and while i like them the orks look and feel a bit wrong.
>>97396052You can get bunch of 2nd ed ork models second hand around the internet. I've bought all these fellas from multiple sources in wildly varying conditions. For that Kev Adams feel, there is seller on Etsy selling models based on those illustrations. They are pricy and yes, 3d printed. Are recasters an option? There are couple selling those old RT and 2nd ed sculpts.
>>97396221>there is seller on Etsy selling models based on those illustrationsI know where they're getting the STLs from, i'm not opposed because i love me the Paul Bonner orks.>Are recasters an option?I have no problem with those fellas, i wouldn't have the Middle earth armies i got without them.
>>97241140Are there any contemporary painting guides for this scheme? The pink is sick. I'm torn between this, old school Minotaurs or basic bitch Blood Angels for my 2nd starter set marines.
Did you know that in 1999 Dan Abnett did a comic that was basically a wholesale rip-off of 40k except the main character was this vampire lady that he had all the other characters constantly talk about how sexy she was.It had a feudal space Catholic empire that oppressed mutants, and even had elite warriors with implanted organs and cybernetics using weapons called bolters. Later Dan Abnett had the MC tame a bolter warrior with her vampire pussy.
>>97397890Then it probably hasn't been collected since the 1990s and was never uploaded online
You want a Death Battle? Try THIS;Durham Red Vs. Vampirella.Place yer bets, sqibs.
>>97397920Probably Vampirella, she simply has more crossovers
>>97397403>Durham Red is a British comics character, originally created in 1987OP YOU FAGET
People are really fucking stupid man.
Why is there so much whinging about 'No Games' on this board? I understand that those who come here solely with the intention of discussing tropes and the like can be frustrating to deal with, but there seem to be some folks here who make it their mission to drop bursts of negativity in threads they should've known would enrage them. And even in these threads that hold more general discussion, I don't see how nearly all of them are not at least tangentially related to traditional gaming.
>>97393693>You want to shout over everyone elsr and abuse the permissability of the board's posting rules for your own benefit. When you disrespect the space you disrespect all the people in it. Since you've disrespected us, we disrespect you in your threadsWell said.
>>97391485In the past, it was in general expected that the majority of people engaging in a thread are playing or running, or have played or run games. Even if the thread or topic itself may not be directly related to actual games, most anons would talk about the topic with a /tg/ background of some sorts.Fa/tg/uys can have a wide variety of interests that naturally come with playing or running games. Not just fantasy- and scifi-media, but also history, mythology, science, arms and armor, art and craft and much more. And sometimes the discussion gets sidetracked into something off-topic, but highly interesting and engaging for everyone, and then loops back around into being made specifically for the sake of games, be it as world-building background, or turning something into a creature, or coming up with cool mechanics or campaigns.This reputation could mean that people from other boards come here to start some general fantasy, scifi or history discussion. But as long as they could keep up a good disguise and as long as the majority of people talked about these things with a /tg/-background, all was good. But over time, more and more people treated this place as "general fantasy shitposting board", after they jumped over from /a/ or /v/ to vomit some stupid idea into the catalog about elves, or make this a battlefield for fighting some perceived political enemy no, I'm not picking sides, all of you suck The general decline of quality on the whole website, and the sudden spike of popularity of traditional games over the last years didn't help. The overall increase of stupidity and vitriol makes it much more apparent when something or someone is just not /tg/, and anons will be less inclined to engage with a thread in good faith. In fact, man anons don't have faith anymore.
>>97392302OP didn't make a point beyond crying about people "being negative".So why come to a games board if you don't want to talk about games?
>>97391485>Why is there so much whinging about 'No Games' on this board?because no games make trite, shit threads for talking in circles vaguely about traditional games, but never any fruitful conversation.>but there seem to be some folks here who make it their mission to drop bursts of negativity in threads they should've known would enrage thempost something good, get something good. post something shit, get called a retard and told to end your own bloodline. post something not related to fitness in /fit/, get called a dyel. post something not related to games in /tg/ get called a no games. simple.>And even in these threads that hold more general discussion, I don't see how nearly all of them are not at least tangentially related to traditional gaming.because the conversation is endless and almost never tied back to traditional games. any "magic" thread has this problem. endless masturbatory imagining about how the magic system vaguely works in theory...it's element based! it's medieval occult! it's vancian! it's psionics not magic! magic is just science! blah blah blahbut never does anyone ever say "okay, here's how to works mechanically and here's an anecdote about how it played at my game table" which is the actually interesting part. talking about ideas is for faggots who imagine writing a book and think they're a writer, but never finish a chapter. it's endless circle jerking about the idea, never any playing. it'd be like if /fit/ or /ic/ were filled with people who talked about fitness and drawing, but never actually lifted or drew... oh wait.Personally, i'm fine with non gaming related posts that talk about things ACTUALLY related to /tg/: established settings, miniatures, 3dprinting, the wider market and "gaming community," but if the topic never actually ties back to /tg/ then it's on the wrong board. the art threads are fine however. I like them. I save them to my pinterst boards.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97393693>We have no obligation to entertain you. We are also users, noone pays us to be here and we have no obligation to create a board that is personally accomodating to you.>You want to shout over everyone elsr and abuse the permissability of the board's posting rules for your own benefit. When you disrespect the space you disrespect all the people in it. Since you've disrespected us, we disrespect you in your threadsThis. Why should I respond sincerely to low effort threads like 'What are dragon farts like in your setting?' or bumps with surface level questions like 'Hmm, interesting, why do the demons read books?' This behaviour is not respectful or productive. it's taking a fat shit on my doorstep and expecting me to polish it into gold.It's been an endless slurry of these threads and questions for years now. The nigger faggot OP says that you should sincerely respond to every single one with as much effort as possible. If that's what you really want, you have to reciprocate peoples' efforts and treat them with respect, not like you're feeding prompts into AI.As it stands, my only reward for engaging with this is receiving yet another vague question with a bump twenty hours later. Until you stop doing this, I'm not giving you shit. So fuck off.
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>>97397527Just drop it
>>97397527Shut. The fuck. Up.
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.
>>97391872>The TTSSpeaking of the TTS, Steam info says there are 24 people suscribed to the Agartha mod. I do wonder if someone outside of the threads has randomly come across it and downloaded it...
I'm putting us across the bump limit so we can bake and then frolic in a land of new edits.
what kind of exotic breads exist throughout the deep i wonder...
>>97214523Are there more of these?
>>97397893What do you mean?
But only the bad ones.
>>97333578>Black>Quadruped, high walk>Lion head>Bat-like wings>Gaseous breath (Poison)>Weird texture (smooth and slimy), long necked>Favored meal, corpses>Lives in human ruins>Blood causes drinkers to inherit a language skillNecromancy dragon, descended on a once-prosperous kingdom's capital city, choking it to death with its poisoned breath and feasting on the carrion. Drinking the blood of this dragon will grant you knowledge of the language of the dead.
>>97369428Always loved dragons with the bodyplan of "big fucking lizard"
>>97333578>>97333590NTA, I reformatted it so it can be done in one 13d6 post.>>97397996>>97398001
Pig Orcs 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.
I promised to DM Call from the Deep after our DM's current campaign occurring in his own realmIt may or may not be a problem that most players have also played BG3 extensively - myself included. Hence, I am very much expecting them to bee line to Baldur's Gate as soon as given the chance (which the guide book does), looking to find familiar faces.I don't want to be a fag and axe BG-series' events from the campaign or set my campaign before the games since some of the players are very passionate about BG3. However, some gap is necessary, especially because BG3's themes and Call from the Deep's themes are a bit too similar. How many years would you put between them? I'm hovering between 30 years and "enough to kill humans and tieflings" years
>>97397446kill all bg3 faggot zoomers
>>97397446Thirty years is plenty.
>>97392292>Give a martial powerful spell casting features and watch as he starts to do far less martial stuff throughout the gameA late game martial is not going to cast a concentration spell every round. Not even a non-concentration. "If you give them an item they'll use it" is an utter non-issue.>No, because that’s already working in combination with other optionsOther items with charges aren't working in conjunction with other options either. Not even every class/subclass feature is built synergise with others, some of them just work on their own.>ince they draw from the same pool of resources (spell slots)There are many limited use abilities that are not spells.>trade offs What is using an attunement slot if not a trade off/opportunity cost?> pool that’s way too deepA line that you've arbitrarily drawn. Whether or not it's "too deep" is entirely dependent on what exactly the spell is.>he flow of combat just became spamming that one thing over and over because why wouldn’t they?Because not every spell works in every situation during every round? Because you will often have things to do that are stronger than a spell if you're not built to capitalise on that spell? Because you have more than 6 rounds in the entire day, and more than 3 rounds for the day on subsequent days unless you have several days of downtime for every one day of adventuring?>once per day is more than enough.For a very rare attunement item that does nothing else? Why would you ever attune to that?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97397446I just wouldn’t use FR at all. For many reasons but you FUCKING bg3 kiddies are a big one. If I must use a generic kitchen sink setting I go for Mystara. I’d explain why but your ilk aren’t worth my time.
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.
Can anyone give me a rundown of Shadowdark?
>>97288112>juiceIt seems good I'm invested. But I hate d10. I'm copying out the sheet but removing some things from each table so that you can use it with only platonic die. I can't be the only one who hates using asymmetrical dice.
>>97397505I like your hand writing anon
no one asked, but here is my spell list. the problem with other lists? they're arbitrary. this one is too, but at least it's mine (should cover spells from B/X, Shadowdark, DCC, Errant and Whitehack)
>>97397934VIDEO LUX CORPUS!!!
