Without thinking about it, entirely subconsciously, you are trained by Pathfinder and D&D to safeguard your players. You are taught to coddle them! And when does this subconscious teaching happen? Not in ANY dungeon master resource. It happens before your first adventure, before your very first D20 roll.It happens when you create characters.In Pathfinder, character creation takes a ridiculous amount of time. I ran it for about six years, and I saw it take well over an hour, sometimes going up to two for new players. As a GM who understood the system inside and out, I could get it done in about a half hour. Losing a character in a game with such a painstaking character creation process is absolutely devastating. As a GM, you wonder if that person will bother to make a new character, or if they will just leave, and if they do, who will go with them? Will you even have a game afterwards?And enemy statblocks are the same way. You look at these massive text blocks that include three different saving throws, the type of hit dice, types and sub-types of creature, and perhaps most hilariously unnecessary, ALL SIX STATS. Who on earth looks at all that and dares think “I’ll make some monsters of my own!” Please understand, I’m not saying nobody makes their own monsters. I’m saying that it is an undertaking to make a monster with a statblock like that. Figuring out saves, stats, and heaven forbid you want to get CR correct, good luck with testing out that garbage.
>>97215768>old good, new badTell us more, this sounds like a fascinating and novel position.
>>97216292Can't wait for the Kickstarter for the official english version
>>97216930>can't read>slop reply
That is purely a pathfinder problem though and I don't understand why so many on this board feel like they have to run it because the world is holding a gun to their head and demanding it.It's not even a very popular design philosophy. Most new systems/games that are being released are a lot less bloated in mechanics. People not wanting their characters to die isn't really due to the char creation process but rather due to not wanting to lose all the hours spent on playing it in my opinion.
>Flame Princess, Dark Streets and Darker Secrets, the Black Hack, the White Hack, Paranoia, Death is the New Pink.These games are more modern than Pathfinder, therefore they're shittier.Checkmate.
It's Da PDF Share Thread!Get ready to stuff your hard drive like a cosplay hooker at a con!STEP 0:<----- That image is not a PDF, it's an image, at least for now. Check the 4plebs link below to find the PDF.PLEASE READ DA FAQ BEFORE REQUESTING OR SHARING.It will answer 99% of your questions about this thread. If you haven't read it, we will know.STEP 1:Please exhibit good manners. Threads start sliding off the board after a certain number of posts. More posts wasted on being rude means fewer posts available for sharing.STEP 2:Request, share, stay awesome!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97214311No change on my end, still corrupted.
Requesting the 5E module Carnival of Tears.
>>97216452One comment. Did you see that I uploaded the pdf here >>97214411 ?
>>97217008I just cleaned the file/d/R76Pv2
Requesting Maximum Threat: A Lancer NPC Supplement
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97208087>>97209768Thanks, I got more.
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>>97215336One, because I thought it looked cooler and tapped the nature of biker gangs.For the other, hovercycles cost ten times as much as mdc motorcycles with Golden Age bikes (140mph, 25 mdc) costing only 11,000. I figured shell shocked slack jaw defectors would be strapped for cash.But Im talking about posting on mobile. It gives a catchy not required and then fails to post stating that captcha was filled incorrectly.
>>97215931>But Im talking about posting on mobile.Then it depends on which mobile app you're using. It needs to be updated to properly load the new captcha. Update your app. You do understand that it works on a "one of these things is not like the other" basis, and that you have to wait for the cooldown timer to hit 0 and show "Done", right?
Stories, art, don’t care. Post it or don’tWhite human male and orc female pairings are the key to fixing the realm
>>97215921Closest I got was my party getting hired to clear out some forests my a merchant (djinn who was fucking with us) who didn’t mention they were infested with beastmen and orcs and it was gonna be a lot longer than a single “get in fuck shit up and loot” job and we were bound to this thing.My Paladin led the charge into an orc camp and started going kill-crazy as his barely sentient/primal force moon maiden patron flooded him with zeal and wrath.At the same time, one the chief’s concubines, who didn’t like being a meat sock for this dink made her move and the party catches up and sees buckethead popping off and being helped by an equally berserk she-orc and the two tore the chief apart.They got along great after that, she became a recurring character and I retired that character with him and the orc leaving for the “little house on the prairie”No coomer shit, just the DM taking the cliche and playing it straight (hyper-loyal orc wife where violence is foreplay) and his way of saying my guy was more orc-like than the orc in the party
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>>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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You know, ever since vicemayor Mallus Plagus took the mandate and conscripted all residents to erect the massive spire in place of the city hall, I've been thinking he doesn't have our best interest at heart.I mean, strongarming the coroner to destroy the autopsy report for the dessicated corpse of our old mayor was kind of a dick move, and after this story got published, all the media people got to be awfully quiet on that front.The horrible nightmares didn't let me sleep, but fortunately, HR noticed that it wasn't just me, and we have 30 minutes sleeping breaks at the office to increase productivity.That blond foreign lady is kind of hot, but I'm not into tattoos.
>>97216937Something like this but no whiskers and fur on the body is what I'm going forBut even the nose is hard to get right, it either goes fully furry or not at all. Body fur just doesn't seem to be much of a thing or it gets fucky fast
>>97217019Okay, so for the nose, you want a feline style nose but no real snout with whiskers?Other than that, it seems we're in the ballpark of what anime calls a cat girl but you don't seem to want it in an anime art style, correct?
>>97216971Last image of the thread. You're up for making the next one
>>97217049Welp, I've been trying and can't quite get >>97216937 with Bing. Gonna have to use one of them fancy new generators. Can't even get a feline nose with any consistency. Most gens came out roughly like this https://files.catbox.moe/j69w1w.jpeg
What "magical realm" and edgy stuff do you like including in your RPGs?For me is forceful genderbending spells that can't be undone.
>>97212934The villainess, Regina, was low in the Cult's hierarchy, so she had yet to understand that she joined an organization that was way more than the Illuminati with the serial numbers filed off. As for the serpentfolk... well, they fucking hate humanity more than everything (because ancient humans drove them to the brink of extinction and replaced serpentfolk as the top dog of Earth before Atlantis was even a thing). The Cult had sent Regina and her henchmen to guard the lost underground serpentfolk city that was discovered relatively near her area of operation (Oregon) and catalogue any artifact inside. She didn't realize that half her staff had been killed and replaced by serpentfolk infiltrators in the span of three days, including her head scientist (the sorceror). So, the scaly bastards had everything set up to recover all their valuable artifacts, murder her, and disappear back into the shadows to plot mankind's downfall as they usually do, with said mankind remaining none the wiser. Obviously, they only managed to accomplish the second objective.
>>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.
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?
>>97213989The goblins that the party deal with are just exiles from an advanced, overseas civilization that, in their enlightenment, have realized that the optimal way to deal with crazies is to just dump them in the uncivilized lands across the sea.
They do get extirpated, but they also emerge naturally from several species of animal that are themselves quite difficult to render extinct, so it's only a matter of time before they reestablish themselves in an area.
>>97216563which gender is an intersex person
>>97213989Because they've made anti-skavenism a hate-crime.
>>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.
Why are the Blood Angels the only ones that are lore accurate?
>>97212619>>97213691>Nigga heil Russ
>>97204961>space wolves>whiteLiterally never been the case. Please learn to read before announcing you are a tourist.
>>97205432Trump hate video game and tabletop game
Warhammer would be immensely better off if they just said whites killed off all the non whites in the setting so there are zero black people in it
>>97217009>so there are zero black peopleThere basically weren't any until the last 10 years or so.
Whi built the dungeon?
The dungeons in my setting are there mainly because of climatic upheavals. The frost giants brought about an ice age to force humans south and expand their own territory. That lasted for centuries before they were driven back and the artifact they used broken. Because of that, mankind is currently reclaiming lost cities and clearing out the strongholds of giants and their allies. The sea level also fell during the ice age, so many new ports had to be built which are now undersea dungeons.
>>97207618>those aren't dungeons, those are just... dangerous places.Let me ask you a powerful question, "What's the difference?">>97207618>what's the point of saying that they are "dungeons"?Mechanical vernacular.
>>97182523The Dungeon Designer duh
>>97199531I like this idea, the adventurers delving into a massive dungeon in search of treasure, riches and fame, with the unknown prize being the undead lich Whi waiting patiently in the center. Echos of the Temple of Elelmental Evil and the Caverns of whatchucallit.
>>97197677Its essentially the metaplot of Earthdawn, which is the prehistory of Shadowrun.
Work in Progress, Pink Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97216901I got a bunch of these guys for cheap. I'm toying with the idea of making them plague monks or at least pestilens clanrats as they look a lot more rotten and feral than the older clanrats.
Electric static grass applicators worth it for Warhammer bases?
>>97216960Sure. I probably wouldn't outside of display minis, and not a real army. But whatever. They work as advertised if that's the effect you want.
>>97216909i hope things get better for you man, please hang in there! and thank you, i tried out a new technique with using makeup sponges for the underpainting before applying my acrylics and it helps a lot>>97216958i imagine you could proxy them pretty easy as pestilens, only problem is that the newer clanrats are monopose so there's only so much customization you can do. i do love the previous clanrats because of the customization and frankly i like how stout and goofy they are (also they're faster to paint because of the less detail)the big question is if the rumors about eshin models getting updated are true because some of those models are reaching eldar levels of old
>>97216323Give him a boob and a crab clawNo vagene though
>>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.
has anyone played deadmans hand? how is it?
>>97212971At least the little faggots aren't holding not-lasrifles.
>>97215733kek was just thinking they'd make great base models for feudal guard. Give the little faggots lazors.
>>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.
Thanquol was the hero of the Gotrek and Felix books
>>97208100I bet Gotrek is a little slut and likes to power bottom for ah who gives a shit
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>>97213742Nope, they're /v/No one cares about TOW but vidya secondaries
>>97215865cope
>>97213742>>97214820How's your skaven army then? Care to post your painted minis? Surely you play them.
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.
>>97186108I like that primaris marines came out of it.
>>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.
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.)
>>97200663>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"?Here is the problem. You're presenting with the options of:1. Continue to play the game2. End the game early with an unsatisfactory ending. Also arguably undo all their progressLet's ignore that most people playing D&D don't really come here to deal with your philosophy and ethics 101 moral dilemmas. What you want to do is give them two (or more) options that allow the story to still keep going. Or if it's the end of the story - to choose how it ends. But the key to both of those it that it needs to be satisfying.And this is the problem with the "we turn around and leave" idea. Leaving is giving up. It's quitting. And your players didn't show up to quit. So think of a solution that's not "okay we quit" because that's never going to be the choice they make.
>>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.
What is the best system for playing a paraplegic fantasy adventurer?
>>97215530Thirding GURPS. I've only read the rules once, and I'm already sure.
>>97215490Seriously? One of these, maybe in Dr Who, or any other system you prefer (Traveller, WHFRP, GURPS, etc). A Dalek is basically a combat wheelchair and life support system for the limbless blob inside.Maybe base the campaign on this excellent Dalek web cartoon series about a Black Dalek rebelling against the Gold Dalek? http://www.cg-lair.co.uk/daleks/secemp00.htm
>>97215490>all the shitlibs want to play a gimp in a wheelchair>none of them want to play a downie or someone with cerebral palsy or cretinismFascinating.
>>97217028Maybe they don't like playing self-inserts.
>>97217028These types, being aligned to theater kids and by extension sort of actors, are aware of the rule.
