How do we fix Steampunk?
>>97219174If referencing and drawing inspiration counts as ripping things off, then yes, an AI can only rip things off, but by that logic, the same should be said of human beings. Art is built atop art.
>>97221835Tradition is by definition a living thing. It is cultural continuation, the passing down of cultural elements from one generation to the next. If such continuation doesn't exists anymore then we are not talking about tradition. We are talking about history.
>>97217321>go pray to Harry Potter, plebbitI pray to Odin. The true god-wizard.
>>97196423>>97196434Whereas cyberpunk was an aesthetic but also a social commentary on unrestrained hedonism/corporate greed and the consequences thereof, steampunk is just an aesthetic, which is why it's so hollow and why it mostly appeals to cosplayers. There's no substance so it's nebulous and vague, which makes it easier to get into but less poignant.>tl;dr it's shallow
>>97221874>steampunk is just an aestheticSteam punk deals with themes of rapid industrialization, colonialism, Victorian class structures, the impact of anachronistic advanced technologies, such as the "difference engine" would have on the world at large. Steam punk isn't just cyberpunk with brass googles it's a genre of alternative history, a fact people sadly forget.
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>>97219933Drukhari? No that's Dark Eldar son
>>97220134Very cool, I got an unfinished Dwarven lotr army as well, I really like the comfy dwarven rangers sculpts.
>>97221410>I must be fucking retarded but I can't find shit for dark eldar BFGThey weren't exactly a common release, they went mail-order only after about a year. If you mean the rules, they're all in Armada and magazines. I've been debating selling off my fleet because I haven't done shit with them anyway
>>97194515Cool dudes, nice kitbash. This is why I enjoy this hobby.
>>97221933I have the models from a random Ebay BFG lot I bought but were they even called Dark Eldar in that Armada supplement or just Eldar Corsairs? I can't even remember at this point and I refuse to walk the 10ft to go check my book case.
I haven't bought a model since like 2023 maybe early 2024. When I bought Dante he was like $35. What the fuck happened? This is legit robbery.
>>97220489>Competition missing.Only in the ad department. Your post is spot on. There are lots of games with better models and way superior rules to any of the GW products. It's a shame they're not as well known as warhammer
>>97221959Blood Bowl is way cheaper than 40k. You can easily just buy the starter set and have plenty of fun with a friend. Team boxes are really cheap too so you can easily assemble multiple teams and invite your friends over for a league after a few months of collecting.
>>97218744The prices for characters have been daft for years, it's why I proxy and use an obscure chapter. Blarneus Malgar here cost £2.99.Just never understood people paying ten times as much for a mini just because it's a named character. Fair play if it's a big diorama or whatever but when it's just 'a normal mini at five times the price' they lose me.
>>97222012Can confirm, split a box set with a mate and you're gaming for less than fifty bucks.
>>97220489>while also actively working against the english speaking market until very recently.Eh?
ITT: secret knowledge your party would kill for, either to get it, protect it, destroy it, hide it, whatevermaybe just playing delta green would scratch that hitch but I'd like to avoid intergalactic reality warping monsters and keep things tech noir / cyberpunk related because the setting is eclipse phase with nechronica and cowboy bebop shoehorned in but anything goes reallybtw the twist for my players is that they don't know they're onboard a generation ship but I'm looking for ideas to get them on a shitload of false leads kthxbye xoxoxoxo merryxmas & hppy new yr btwfuck this new captcha so much wtf
>>97217422Without knowing more about your party or your world's history, generally anything that indulges or promises to enrich or empower the players is enough.The price for profit can always be reduced to money. Life insurance is proof enough that even the average person understands how much someone's life is worthIf you're talking about raw power, heck just attach a meta-mechanical benefit for getting a piece of treasure or book. You promise to give them a feat from the book? If it's the first time, you don't even have to tell them it's the worst feat in the book.
>>97217429OP asking for plot hooks to engage players (unless he's not just botting, which he probably is)
>>97217422>false leads Give them one that is almost correct but not quite >schizo ramblings about being trapped in a lab-test Have them find a brain-in-jar experiment underway. >abort, retry, fail? t b h hiding that they're on a generational ship is difficult to do unless you get into megastrucutres. Doesn't take that long to get from one side of a ship to the other and player characters will have inordinate amounts of free time.
>new captcha is an IQ test>OP gets filtered Kek
>>97218230>bottingqrd?
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>>97200112Are we playing the same game? People run this in ugin decks and I see it pretty often.
>>97220149I mean it's only been around for 2 years, but with the recent influx of cards from cube and bonus sheets it looks like it's going to start being better supported.I mean I don't really care much about it from an aspect of competitive viability or a healthy scene, but it's a lot of fun and I'm glad to see it growing.
>>97221756I'm so glad they do so, 100 rares + 100 mythics crafts the entire format due not that many cards being viable. And they stick forever, somehow an insane budget format. Unlike Standard eating 40 rares every 3 months.
>opponent takes like a minute every fucking turnIs he literally fucking braindead?
>>97221987And it just keeps happening. Is it fucking retard day?
What is the best system for playing a paraplegic fantasy adventurer?
>>972154905eThey have a 3pp officially promoted module where you for the cheap price of nothing become better than people with functional legs
>>97221198Eastoids make them hot. I unironically think that westoids would have gotten away with the social justice movement much longer if they kept the marquee characters conventionally cool and attractive.
>>97221926That's only part of the issue, token characters always feel forced and hamfisted because inherently are unless the whole thing is made with levity in mind or they're part of a joke. In the specific case d&d adventures aren't generic fantasyland escapades but are specifically and for the vast majority about outdoormanship, underworld delving and monster fighting, putting a guy in a conventional wheelchair there only evokes annoying, dragging scenarios, making the guy sit on an unconventional wheelchair (that offsets those inconveniences) makes the whole exercise moot. On the other hand having the cripple strapped to, for example, a dire wolf mount makes the whole experience potentially interesting balancing out the potential grievances.
>>97215592>geez, he raped your dog but it was like a 5min thing why are you still talking about it, just let it go if you don't mention it ever again everyone would forgot already why are you STILL talking about it, it was like 10 years ago? I didn't even remembered about the dog rape untill you mention it AGAIN geeeez
>>97217028Look it at this wayIf the rules says you can make a downie, BUT you don't have to talk like a downie, and everyone around you treats you normally (not like they would treat a downie), plus you have extra perks like "perpetual Rage", why wouldn't you play a downieThey want to play the gimp in a wheelchair precisely because they DON'T have to be a gimp in a wheelchair
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Do the Skitarii have any martial arts? What if they developed some?
You know, I always find it odd that while Nurgle and Khorne have proper chaos space marines that represent them in the Khorne berserkers and plague marines, the same cannot be said about Slaanesh and Tzeentch. Like, shouldn’t Tzeentch marines should be something like a sorcerer unit, or a heavy mutant marine unit? And I don’t know what Slaanesh should have got to be honest
>>97221709I think so. Player 3 is foaming at the mouth for the chance to kill daemons and already delivered two IC rousing speeches. We got a "daemons could be here. With the warp, you can go anywhere you want" joke and we pretended we never started doing DW and were instead playing our other campaign.>>97221751They're all new players but one, a big fight against a greater daemon would've been too tough for their level, especially since no one would've had fun cause only the librarian is equipped to battle them effectively, and the main enemy are Nids.>did that test completely wrongThat's what I was going for, to be fair. Completely flip the expectations of how a normal test should go, hence offering players to pick a -20 penalty. The highest WP player failed his 90% chance to succeed, while the lower one passed his 18% twice, so the RNG was also tzeenchian. The reward for the room was a fate point, so they got that back as well, no "gotcha! you wasted resources on an illusion".
>>97221929Slaanesh does have his Noise Marines though, who are supposed to represent love for extreme stimuliTzeench has plenty of sorcerers serving him, which aren't relly a "unit" per se, but it would be hard to make one of them seeing how individualistic they tend to be. And rubric marines are associated with him, who are a resurt of sorcery
>>97221976I know that, but they don’t represent them well like how Khorne berserkers and plague marines represent Nurgle and Khorne. Like, which part of rubric marines scream Tzeentch? These automatons could well be Nurgle units considering how tough they are
I haven't kept up with 40k lore in a long while but I just found out that they brought this guy back for no real reason and I find it really cringe. What I liked about the old lore was that humanity was in decline, the Imperium that once was is a long distant memory, the heroics of the past is shoruded in uncertainty and ambiguity and all that remains is the rot and decay. Now we have a dude from the past that has just come back and he is totally badass and cool and is gonna fix everything and also any ambiguity that makes the past mysterious and interesting is now gone because there are people alive who can backup what happened. It feels less grimdark and more marvel super hero shit. I don't really like it.
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.
>>97220910The fuck is BROsr?
>>97221917A miserable pile of cope!
>>97221930LolBut actually, what are they?
>>97221968A group of dudebro larpers on twitter or whatever, who were mildly comical in that they claimed to be playing AD&D 1e more raw than anybody, but got things wrong. Largely irrelevant and mostly gone now. They're also one of fishfag's many scapegoats for everything he doesn't like.
>>97221984They must use this place too lol, everytime I see anything OSR getting discussed there are retarded losers who don't know how to read the rules spouting off about how they're sanctified and beyond reproach.
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?
>>97214004>Consider: Why can't modern states exterminate the nazi populations within?Because they are cowards.
Who on Warth would want to exterminate this? Anyone who would is a monster.
>>97213999Canada is not the best example to cite of a nation capable of dealing with invasive pest species
>>97215103God I hate millennial writing
>>97220088>can't name a single traditional game he playsYeah I don't think so
Games where Intelligence is the best stat? Hard mode: not because of magic.
>>97217507Starfinder 1e because hacking is broken and it's an INT skill. Basically everything in the game can be either reproduced or circumvented via hacking. You can hack doors, alarms, vehicles. You can hack people's phones, even their weapons and armor. It's the best combat skill, the best social skill, and the best utility skill. And it all hinges on a single kind of skill check: Computers, which is INT-based. You can even get wireless hacking at a very low level, allowing you to basically hack anything in Bluetooth range, removing the need to actually touch what you're hacking or look suspicious while doing it. The developers released a supplement later on that tried to nerf hacking by splitting it up into three separate skills, forcing hackers to at least choose one or two things to be absolutely broken at, rather than bending the game over and fucking it constantly. However, the devs didn't have the balls to just straight-up patch it, so they released the change as a set of "optional rules," which--when a playgroup is even aware of them--are generally ignored.
>>97218454Those people aren’t actually in charge. The real puppeteers are unseen. Even Epstein was just a pawn. Level up lil bro
You get to improve skills by +10% for each point of Intelligence in BRP at the end of character creation. Also the Idea rolls can be versatile and really useful, depending on how much the GM lets PCs get away with.
>>97219434He's a retard who hasn't played with it either. Again. Play a game for once in your life with real players.
>>97217507Digimon Digital Adventures 1.4, where investing into Improved Derived Stat Brains + Technician and its branching qualities + Prodigious Skill Computers on your Digimon can effectively let them warp reality because they can affect all code and have a bare minimum of like +30 on their 3d6 Skill Checks.
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>>97217115I'm eagerly looking forward to all the FGO fanfics having to add a tag that they were made prior to this reveal
>>97216444She looks like she pissed herself.
We stan foid jumpers here bros.
>>97216715A Pokémon undergoes more deviant genetic expression between evolutions than all but the most extreme cases of gender dimorphism witnessed in humans. We've been on this path since the very beginning.
>>97220924And we SHIT ON Gohan, who will NEVER be a real woman.
Another Infernals edition edition>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97218678>>TQ: Which Ability has the coolest Infernals Charms?None, the best Infernal charms are theme based
>>97221865>t. Most humble Zenith
>>97221467I don't think she has the ability to infest people's souls based on what that anon said, as per Neco Arc's new lore.
>>97218804No Inspire action is pretty meh for Social Influence. Teamwork is also way too strong, I'd cap it somehow.Other than that, I have a way better time with it than 3e because it actually feels playable and doesn't try and obfuscate the differences between Exalt types by breaking them up into hundreds of fiddly literal who charms.
>>97219954IMO they named too many of the Eight generals. Also they did that thing with Ipithymia that they did with the Lover and made her sexless.At that point, just make a different character so that people who liked her can feel free to port her forward without much hassle.
So, now you need to decide. Do you close your eyes to what you've seen and go back to sleep? Or do you come with this psycho burnout and do the impossible against the unbelievable and keep the future at bay for another day? What's it going to be? In or out?Yeah? You dumb shit.>Thread Question:What conspiracy trope do you use the most and how mythos-adjacent do you make it?>Unofficial Resources:https://delta-green.neocities.org
>>97211142I like Iconoclasts setting, the middle east and central asia are pretty cool place for scenarios
>What name should we give to one of the primary antagonists>Uh let's just call him LupusBravo Detwiller
What's the best shotgun you've read from this year?Mite b the Moss Covered Arrowhead one, but that might just be a goof I like. It's a decent scenario, but making it stone age sidesteps a lot of the difficulty writing investigation and combat in modern games.What's the weirdest that's not shit?The Everyone Is John scenario is either good fun or a disaster damp squib at the table.
One of the most prolific 'writers' half the scenarios are bad is called lovecrafts cat herder and leddit does NOT like that.
>>97221949The Dog is good - simple notes and basic structure with some evocative optional stuff included.The one about the Hungarian Emperor coming back as zombie Napoleon would probably be cool if it was a full scenario instead of chopped up to fit the word limit.This new captcha is pretty good fun.
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Sorry anons, we're dead because I was too busy playing my new video game. We'll be far more alive tomorrow!
>>97217685https://rentry.co/HaoChartTried to bang out something for Haoran's relationship chart, obviously still missing a ton of characters but hopefully will be able to finish soon.
>>97221773>pic relis Hao a cat girl
>>97221823She's a spider girl, isn't she?
>>97220014An interesting perspective, Anon. Did you just call an imperial general dense? A most treasonous prospect. Kowtow one billion times as an apology.
