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"I try to create a lot of situations in which the player has to face small but crucial choices. My device is 'one good for one evil'. What I mean is that, if the player can choose something really good for him now, this must create a weakness for him on another aspect of the game."

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This general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Ameritreasure, Fillers, Party, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the game that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.

TQs:
- Which designers got better with age and which ones got worse?
- What component would you like to see more in games?
- What's the genre you like the most and the one you like the least?


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>>96631900
>Patchwork
>You can only pick the first 3 tiles after the marker
>You can be screwed and have to chose between 3 shitty tiles depending on your opponent's previous turn
> WTF Uwe, games are supposed to be fun and satisfying
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starting to come around to the idea that 6p Dune Imperium is best Dune Imperium
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>friend spent 7 years working on a "secret game project"
>only playtesters were his relatives
>paid a professional graphic designer
>ordered samples from a chinese factory
>finally shows it to me
>it's tic tac toe
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>>96632264
Let me guess, it's already got 3000 orders on P500 and anons kvetching about it being late?
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Tomorrow, I will find out if my friends are cool enough to like Onitama...

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>Brutus' Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g

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>>96632380
>A massive spider-like stone machine infused with cosmium, practically a mecha walker
Why yes, I am jumping this next.
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>>96632380
Hmm, curious why having five basic lands (one of each color) for 200 is considered “not super useful,” especially when lands offering just two colors are only 100 each? I’m not into Magic myself, but hey cool to see a new jumpmaker in the mix
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>>96632380
I know making up Drawbacks sucks, but you can't have just four, especially when one is barred if you bought a perk (which itself doesn't make much sense considering that drawbacks trump perks).
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Guess we're doing mtg jumps now. Was there an update or something?
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>>96632380
I know next to nothing about MTG and its settings. Still, from a purely mechanical perspective, I think this is a good jump with a good amount of options, without any worthless peaks. However, it needs more drawbacks at the 100, 200, and possibly 600 level, or similar significant points, with perhaps a few more drawbacks at the 400 level.

Prove me wrong.
>inb4 just excessively use the undo button bro

Miniatures suck, are too expensive, take too long to paint, and don't do what minis need to do in tabletop RPGs -- THEY AREN'T MODULAR.

If you start a campaign and your fighter begins with studded leather and a shortsword, you'll probably have splint by level 3 and a great-axe by level 4.

And now your miniature sucks and doesn't look like your character. So instead we need MODULAR minis - like LEGO block minifigures.

I have hundreds of cheap ripoff LEGO minifigs for my 5e 2024 D&D campaign now. They have tradeable armors, weapons, helmets, hair, pants, shields, etc. And the badguy monsters for the campaign are massive and huge (and cheap).

Pic is a $2 custom knight. If my players kill one, they can take the armor and wear it on their minifig, and now their minifigure looks completely different.

(I made a video on the topic but the mods don't want videos posted in /tg/ for some strange reason).
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>>96632357
Shaggy? what happened to you?
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>>96631909
I just use minis that look cool, they don't need to fit the character -that- much.
I did have some generic human woman holding a staff, used it for a female catfolk bard, just out of inspiration decided to modify a bit to add cat ears and tail, adding a bit more color and to turn the staff into a thyrsus. The process was completely unnecessary but fun.
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>>96631994
>a druid who uses a lump of modeling clay for his mini
Dare I say... based?
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>>96632537
I'm trying to explain an idea to make D&D campaigns better, not trying to make money on Temu.

https://youtu.be/A6cLFdTBqFQ?si=QO1XAijbymLUGleK
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>>96631909
>Modular minis so my miniature actually resembles my avatar as they change
How do I blame video games for this?

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How the fuck does this even work?
I wanted to try giving Twilight 2000 a go, but Im having a hard time finding a group and I don't feel ready yet to be a GM.
Then i noticed some people mentioning that they like playing it solo, but i don't really understand.
Isn't the whole point of this to play with people?
How do you handle being a GM controlling everything trying to kill the player if you are also the payer?
How do you handle the unravelling story of a module or a campaign as a player if you already know it as a GM?
What's really stopping you from fudging your own rolls every time so you win all the time?
Whats the point of roleplaying if you are basically mumbling by yourself?
How do you get fun out of this?
Im not really sure if I should give it a go, or instead just try to do my homework and attempt to be a GM for once.
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>>96632188
Consider finding a group instead of doing your taxes as a hobby.
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>>96632188
What's really stopping you from fudging your own rolls every time so you win all the time
because if you have half a brain you'll realise how anti fun that would be. If you want to tey solo, go with something with it baked in like ironsworn, otherwise you'd be better off joining a group. You'd ve surprised, even in rural areas, just how many people want to play ttrpgs (dnd)

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>thread question
Do you use external software (text editor or something else) to write up your builds? If yes, what text editor or what other software?
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>>96632501
Did you make this?
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>>96632483
The moment you get to the marriage section it's blindingly obvious this was made by an incel

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>>96630475
Eewwww
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>>96630496
Gay
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TOK, come back to us.......

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Reminder that goblins are ontologically evil and there is no act or harm against them which is wrong.
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>>96630976
Okay but that still doesn't refute the idea that evil beings can be "corrupted" to be good.
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>>96629646
,>It's also not synonymous with hero or villain. Adolf Hitler was Lawful Good, he believed in strict societal order and the inherent validity of hierarchies of authority and thought everything he was doing was morally right, that he was uplifting an oppressed german people and smiting the wicked that plagued them from without and within, but he was still very much a villain.

Anon I hate to break to you but that's how everyone thinks, everyone believes they're "the good guy" if that means you aren't evil than no one is. Even those that think something as basic as "being evil is good" are good by this argument.
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>>96622981
Forever.
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>>96632026
>Execution
A fulfillment of the punishment delivered by the law with no connection between the one who executes and the one whose blood is spilt

>Rape
An attempt to perform a certain action by one side that fundamentally has to do with the linking of the two involved together, against the will of one side.

In one case, a hypothetical paladin would be following through with his oath to reduce evil in the world, while in the other, they are attempting to forcefully connect with evil even through its rejection.

Nobody is going to feel particularly bad for the target in either case, but one option leaves the paladin unstained while the other connects the paladin to the very evil the paladin swore to destroy.
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Alignment causes brain damage because you have people unironically saying Hitler was Good because he thought it was good to shove Jewish kids into gas chambers. The whole point of a universe where morality is baked into its fabric is that it tells you that those things are bad.

Welcome to the New School Revolution General, the thread dedicated to games derived from the OSR movement

>What is the NSR?
NSR is a subcategory of the OSR, it mostly follows the same play style but experiments further with the mechanics and settings
*broadly NSR games*
*have* a gm, a interesting setting, living world
*are* rules light, deadly
*and focus on* emergent narrative, external interaction and exploration

>What is this thread for?
This thread is for system, adventure, setting, mechanics, ongoing campaigns, anything that related to the *actual* game
POST ART ALSO, inspiration and for the tg threads

>What is this thread NOT for?
Meta discussions or drama of the games and its creators aka shadowboxing with twitter, reddit and the OSRG (frens with osrbros)

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>>96632424
you're in a weird convo that I'm not following, but I wanted to say that PbtA games in general have that retarded idea of describing it as "say this" when it's clearly is meant to be read as "say something that means this". By context cues you get that you're not supposed to read verbatim, in practice you'd be retarded if you did that, but the wording says to read it out loud. It's weird. It might be a retard filter.
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Apocalypse World and its consequences were a disaster for tabletop gaming
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>>96632554
>Apocalypse World and its consequences were a disaster for tabletop gaming
It's just the flavor of the decade for shitty hacks. Believing it's any different from the glut of d20 slop in the 3e days is just being a child.
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>>96632164
Yep. Its rules light compared to some things so its nusr if you run it with the right vibes.
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>>96632568
It's completely different. Apocalypse World hacks include much more interesting and popular games, OGL 3e clones were universally worse.

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>Sumi
She stays on top of her studies, so it's not much of an issue. If her busy schedule does make her fall behind, then she's not about turn to another student for help. She has a reputation to maintain, and being tutored by a pipsqueaks doesn't mesh well with her image or her ego. Yaya's too nice and naive- it grosses Sumi out. It's not that she believes kindness is weakness or anything, but Yaya wouldn't be much fun for her to tease and her attitude reminds her too much of her younger self.

So she's going to avoid Yaya like the plague and cringe inside whenever they interact unless given a good reason to change her tune. Using her as an in with the student council is one, and needing her technical expertise for help with an elaborate art installment she's dreamed up is another. Yaya's probably one of the better picks for a partner since she's better equipped to deal with Sumi wanting to start over when they're halfway done because decided the whole project was unsalvageable for a reason most people won't notice.
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>>96630969
Cute scene...
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>>96631671
Thanks
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>>96630969
Intimate scene. Yoo couked.
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You guys are adorable.

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>What's a Solo RPG?
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2: Ask in the Solo RPG General: >>96465762
3: Solo is a good way to test out systems and to avoid problems such s "Schedule Conflict" or "Playing with Weirdos"

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I'm wanting to run a scifi campaign for my group and I am curious if anyone here has run and or knows of any good systems that don't have a setting attached to it (or at least is easy to ignore). I know Savage Worlds has a sci fi companion and I do have M-Space which is a hack of Mythras for scifi games. I am hoping to be able to do something more hard sci fi with the campaign if that helps.
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D20 future, the pdf should be out there somewhere teenage me downloaded it to help with my own homebrew system some years ago
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>>96632175
Honor + Intrigue has the Tome of Intriguing Options with the Blasters + Intrigue conversion. Pulp/serial flavored, of course.

Barbarians of the Aftermath can do sci-fi settings as well as post-apoc, but it's pretty rough and more of a bolt-on for the actual Barbarians of Lemuria.

Savage Worlds, but you already mentioned that.

GURPS Space leans towards the harder end of sci-fi, surprising no one. Much more so than the pulpier options that already came up. Personally I just use it for planet generation.
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>>96632175
Stars Without Number isn't without a setting, but its easy to ignore.

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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!

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not exactly the thread to ask, but it does apply to campaign creators. have you ever thought about running some sort of fantasy army-themed rpg and using total war's custom battles (or something like dominions) for combat?
im probably overlooking something, but it sounds like it could be cool.
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I was thinking about necromancy in typical-ish D&D settings. I think most kings and lords would punish the raising of zombies and skeletons with death.

A lot of people have already talked about the risks raising these undead create for other people. They are beings of negative energy, they will kill others if control is lost, and so forth. But also, for your typical medieval-esque setting, undead would represent an enormous threat to the power of kings and lords. A single serf caught carrying weapons in the wrong circumstances could already face harsh punishment. A single necromancer could create dozens of capable warriors from the local graveyard. That's a huge rival to your power.

In the real medieval ages the death penalty was given more freely than today. Prison as a punishment was a little less practical, so enslavement and corporeal punishment was more common. A necromancer is a dangerous person to keep a slave, and a couple lashes won't stop them, so execution, which is already the standard punishment for murder, makes a lot of sense. With the danger they pose to common people you won't face much resistance from the peasants.
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What's a good visualizer I can locally? World Anvil being an online service = no.
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>>96631565
Paint.net?

If you want one of those wiki things, Obsidian does it.
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>>96631565
Graph paper

Our DM passed away a few weeks ago. Ive been reminiscing about the games we played and Ive been remembering one of my favorite characters of his.

For my very first campaign (2e AD&D) he made a human fighter named Pierce Preston Yorkford The Fourth. Wore no armor and fought with an estoc. He had a 2% per level of resisting any magical effect. His notable accomplishments were
>jumping infront of a red dragon's breath attack (and making his magic resistance) to save a half drow/elf princess
>getting stabbed in the heart before killing a death knight and taking its cursed sword which kept him 'alive' while slowly corrupting him
>purified himself by swimming in a green river at the bottom of a grand canyon
>courted the half drow princess and training her as his cohort
>repelling a massive undead invasion and slaying their lich king
>gave up part of his soul to save the half drow princess after an explosion nearly killed her
>marrying the princess and later having 2 half elf children with her
>breaking the back of a massive orc horde
>murdered another PC after she put a demon in his infant daughter in exchange for power (and to cure her blindness)
>traveled the astral sea searching for a way to seperate the demonic essence woven into his daughter's soul
>saved an angel and a succubus from a perverted wizard that merged them together
>met Bastet and played with millions of cats before taking three for himself and his children

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>>96629365
I used to play a lot of kitchen table MTG with my cousin but I haven't really played at all in the 15 years since he died
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>>96628301
I had a classmate in highschool commit suicide when the teachers/police spooked him a bit too much. He was caught showing a video on his phone to his friends of him having sex with his girlfriend, and they warned him that he could go to jail for that. Something in his mind just snapped and he walked off the rooftop of a nearby parking garage.
Had two classmates in college who were raped and killed when they were on vacation in Germany. One was raped and strangled to death. The other tried to help her, but was picked up and thrown off a cliff.
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>>96627325
RIP DM

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>>96629340
>>96628518
quintessential american experience
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>>96629985
>quintessential american experience
You don't even know

>>96629365
>Brutal. I guess sometimes people just drop dead.
Nah, one of the players shot him.
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>>96628301
OP here. Im in my early thirties but my friend was 38, almost 39. Found him on his back porch. According to the coroner it was a heart attack. Cant say i was too surprised. He wasnt the healthiest person and in the last two weeks he was telling us the doctors diagnosed him with high blood pressure but were kinda twiddling their thumbs about treatment.

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>>96632321
No, but making the Technocracy into Pentex 2.0 or Seers of the Throne, which is what you seem to be advocating is the same shit, a simplified black and white view. I think what we had in the Revised Convention books is good enough, where they're clearly extreme, they still do brainwashing, etc, but they're not singlehandedly doing every bad thing in modernity.
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>>96632377
No, what's happening is you and other troons are saying the Technocracy has nothing to do with wars or oligarchies. And every bad thing done with technology is just Drumpf or Elon Musk or something. You are gleefully finding a way to make everything shit like your understanding of the world.
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>>96632208
>tfw 99% of the people who were afraid of selling out and becoming normies in the 90s have all done exactly that and are now the gen x / boomers that people rail against
grim
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>>96632394
I think if the Technocracy is supposed to represent order, then they should be involved in stuff related to that. So surveillance, corporate capture of technology, censorship, shit like that. As for wars, I understand they used to be involved in colonialism, but nowadays it's probably easier to spread modernity with "free trade" and media. Plus, trying to write in ongoing wars to the setting may invite another Chechnya situation.
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The Syndicate and by extension the Technocracy is literally responsible for conceiving and implementing modern capitalism with all of its positives and negatives. I'm not sure how much more political you could get than that.


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