>create a system>it's good>but have a huge ego and expect the system to become popular through word of mouth>do 0 PR for the system>do Pikachu face when the system tanksLiterally the story of every new indie system in the last 20 years. What's wrong with people in this industry? Does this industry only attract retards or what? It seems that way because only DND has created an official online service, while the rest believe that Internet is something secondary in the 21st century.
>>97827818D&D did it even worse. They had Critical Role and Stranger Things and the Coof lockdowns make the whole world suddenly pay attention to D&D and what did they do? Released a gimmicky collection of faux-retro Stranger Things adventures nearly a decade after the first season premiered, long after their time to shine had ended, and just before the release of the worst season of the show.
>>97829337Your timeline is incredibly goofy, buddy. The original Stranger Things starter set came out in 2019, the second thing they put out in 2025. The real bag dropping occured with the whole OGL fiasco in 2023 and the incredibly stupid launch of 5.5. Releasing a set of adventures """""based on""""" the final season of an incredibly anticipated show that has a tangential connection to your brand actually makes sense. It wasn't until after the season came out that everyone hated it, after all.
>>97829598I thought there was another one, but only kept finding the hellfire club thing. Still, that's 3 years after the first season, and then 7 more after that, while they were actively releasing the new not-a-new-edition version of D&D, no less.Also forgot about Baldur's Gate 3, which was so massively successful that it made people who exclusively play 5e stop and think>wait, why the fuck is the RPG this vidya is based on such much fucking worse than the vidya?You'd expect them to do some brand synergy, right? Like a campaign setting guide for Faerun like they intended to do towards the launch of 5e? Or maybe a tabletop-ified version of the BG3 adventure with maps and NPC statblocks, and so on. Nope. They made some minis for their dead on arrival VTT service. And then did nothing as BG3 gobbled up all the awards and told everyone how much they hate working with Hasbro and WotC upper management.
>>97829958Yeah, d&d is basically a zombie brand, now, after the ogl shit everyone was either fired or quit. They also didn't do anything for the 50th anniversary, and their "2024" edition wasn't fully released until 2025.
>>97830473>They also didn't do anything for the 50th anniversaryI recall them doing WORSE than nothing by releasing a book about its history that shat on the franchise's origins for being racist in the literal first page.
Pendragon Thread!What's the deal with 6E?
>>97832880Alright, home.Pendragon is an RPG that's been around since the 80s. It was made by Greg Stafford and built on a similar system as Call of Cthulhu (they aren't the same same system, just super similar and homebrewing between the two isn't impossible, just kinda quirky to try and do).The game is built from the ground up to emulate the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Each game session is meant to emulate one year of a knight's life, with feats, adventuring, tournaments, wars, things like that. Since the game internally can run for decades, it also is built on generational play, so you will play one knight, they will have children, one of those children becomes a knight, and when your knight retires or dies, depending on how old the child is they become your new character (typically they need to be 21, but some knights can be knighted as young as 16 in super rare instances, talk with your GM about that).The game has a number of characteristics that define your character physically (strength, size, etc), and those characteristics adjust many of your skills (not all of them though, just most) but only your skills as they are at 14, after that you need to dole out skill points that represent your training as a squire up until you turn 21 and are knighted. Skills cover all knightly deeds, from sword skill and riding horses all the way to recognizing heraldry/individuals and more.The game also has Passions and Traits. Passions are things like one's loyalty to their liege lord, love of their family, and any hatreds they have towards various individuals/families/tribes/nations/etc. Traits are built around one's faith and are always paired as a virtue/sin sort of combo (Chaste/Lustful, Generous/Greedy, etc). The total for each of ones paired traits is 20 (so 15 Valorous/5 Cowardly).
>>97833087All Skills, Passions, and Traits have a soft cap of 20 and increasing them above that expands the crit chance.Now, this is a roll-under system, so you want to roll below your score but you also want to roll as close to your score as possible (especially in opposed tests such as jousting or combat in general as the one closest to their score "wins") and rolling your score exactly is a crit. So if you have a score of, say, 24 then you crit on all 20s as well as all 19s, 18s, 17s, and 16s.In order to increase one's passions, traits or skills, you have to use them generally (there is a chance to increase them through training and the end-of-year winter phase as well). If they are used, you checkmark them and at the end of session you roll and if you roll higher (or roll a 20 if it's already capped) it increases by 1.Lastly, the game is best known perhaps for the Great Pendragon Campaign, a campaign encompassing like 80 or so years of play from 485 to 566, meaning you'll go through a good few knights in the meantime. King Arthur, by the way, becomes known in 510 I think? It might be 515 or any point between those two, I don't have the book right in front of me atm. But yeah, the game is expansive.Magic is also rare and more of a mystical sort, not "magic missile" and "fireball" but shit like "WE CALL ON THE SAINTS TO HEAL THIS KNIGHT" or "the druid calls down a fog to hide your knights from the giants sights."
>>97833107Sorry, had to step away for a moment.Alright, last thing to comment on - "Your Pendragon Will Vary" is a mantra that's been around since I think all the way back in 1st edition in the 80s. Basically Stafford knew players would end up veering stories off in 30 different directions all the time and what style game players would want from the game would vary from group to group. One group might want knights in shining armor on heavy chargers fulfilling quests from faerie kings and queens, another group would want mudcore "chainmail is the only proper armor and kite shields the only proper shield, and no magic or actual miracles" realism. So while the game is, canonically, more in line with, say, the movie Excalibur or even Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" movie (based on a book if I remember rightly), it does give guidelines on how to adapt the game to fit whatever the group overall wants from it.A famous story that was confirmed by Stafford was a female friend of his being asked to play the game with him back in the 90s and she wasn't super interested in it, preferring to play other systems at the time, but finally told him "if I can play a jewish lesbian knight then I'll play" thinking he would scoff and stop asking but he instead said he would have everything ready for her on game day on how to incorporate that sort of knight into the game. Why? Because the Arthurian Legend is one that constantly changes and adapts to fit the times people live in and the stories they want to tell. Hell, the idea of a female knight in an Arthurian-style setting even predated that 90s conversation by centuries, going all the way back to the 1200s with "Le Roman de Silence" about a girl raised as boy who even gets to be a knight and who has to struggle with her identity and the various social norms of her day, settling on using a masculine name, clothing, and presentation through like 98% of the story.
>>97833222>>97833107>>97833087Good show, chap.
>>97833222>Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" movie (based on a book if I remember rightly)Same guy that wrote Once and Future King yeahCool rundown btw
Post cheesecake itt. Beefcake also welcome!Keep it sfw.
>>97758357>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryCharacters/comments/1ije3o4/celira_darkflame_evil_sorceress_by_kartstudio/https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/GDZmUhxqu54xZ2D05FkNRQ/>53 times since November 2023>>97831996>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/13iqrjb/art_comm_layla_the_succubus_human_form/https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/bBQnk2q_LZAnrc1x8KFrbA/>38 times since May 2023>>97832001>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySuccubi/comments/1o0zlzn/layla_the_succubus_demon_form_by_kartstudio/https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/9GGs8ScdfneQMOl5-CjfZg/>47 times since April 2023
>>97758357Meh, I think this image looks nice and it's thread appropriate. I think the rest of you should calm down a bit about this puckee person, yes he's annoying, yes he's a faggot who starts shitty threads, but this is genuinely on-topic for this particular thread, so the outrage is uncalled for.
>>97833963Outrage is always called for.
So who are your favorite waifus in DnD?
>>97826350If critical role counts I choose Jester but specifically this version because of my glove fetish
Factol Pentar. It was love at first sight as a spotty little nerd in middle school.
>>97830968alright gramps time for bed
>>97833586She'd look fantastic spitroated by BBC imported from the Hepmonaland or the Jungles of Chult.
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>>97834096someone also said that demons are all just fallen anglesthat they aren't necessarily evil, they just want something god can't offerand so they end up acting evil so that they can be maximally opposed to god in an effort to break free from god
Fattening up Lucy-chan and Satania-chan, the biggest ZFJs of them all... so that they're nice and healthy... cute plump wives... fat needed to survive winter...[USER WAS SENT OVERBOARD FOR THIS POST]
>>97833973Haki transcends all!>Negates it with strong CoQ
>>97833399What did we say about jerking off before writing, anon…?
>>97833489Your devil fruit was so fucking shitty, I remember it now
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https://www.goonhammer.com/lore-explainer-starcraft-part-one-the-background/Jesus fuck the Goonhammer crew are a bunch of onions quaffing cuckolds.>uhh can you imagine that in the 90s they would call something the confederacy, and all the characters were white
>>97833768>Jesus fuck the Goonhammer crew are a bunch of onions quaffing cuckolds.Well yeah that's kind of a prerequisite to give a fuck about a Blizzard game.
>>97827897You get Protoss titties, bellies, hips, butts and thighs.
>>97834294Adept tummy.....
>>97833768Coonhammer are parasitical secondaries to everything. You should ignore them. They regurgitate opinions from more qualified and learned individuals they find on thr internet, and oust themselves as basedbean extract slurpers with shit like this.
Recently I found some Humanity Fuck Yeah YouTube videos that use AI voice narration on my feed. After using them as background noise while cleaning my apartment I found that that most of them are more or less the same. Humans are the only ones who know how to fight/love sex/survive/etc. How can we save the genre or reinvent it so it isn't so stale?
>>97834130>>Qualrich is basically the male fantasy for neo-cons and manosphere paypigsDo yourself a favor and fuck off back to wherever (bluesky or some discord full of annoying trannies) you came from. Your particular flavor of bullshit isn't welcome on this board or this site in general.
>>97834230What this guy said. Preserving humanity's existence is worth the deaths of entire solar systems worth of Navi.
>>97834230>>97834231>>97834236For most of human history there was an understanding that it was better to die for a just cause than it is to live in obedience to an unjust one. Avatar is meant to be one of those stories... kind of like that movie about the American Indians that's oddly similar to Avatar. I think the existential angle they added about human extinction undermines the narrative because you have people hyper fixating on that one specific aspect of the worldbuilding and flattening their engagement with the rest of the story.We are also only told that humanity needs the resources on Pandora by the company invested in harvesting those resources. Apply your critical thinking faculties to that.
>>97834214that entire post in turn is repeated "Why didn't he do X?", which is still not criticism of the actions he actually took, but rather armchair strategizingit is ironic you should decry his character, considering you sound impatient and emotional yourself
>>97834251>We are also only told that humanity needs the resources on Pandora by the company invested in harvesting those resources.I am pretty sure there is a lot of extra material that confirm that it wasn't just a giant psyop. Let me try to check on the wikiHoly fucking fuck. >The article starts saying that Unobtanium is a rare earth compound that has the position 120 on the periodic table>Everything only goes more retarded beyond thatOok, I can't fault you for ignoring extra material
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: >>97665641Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: pastee.dev/p/sp2Mdb5Ihttps://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/f52W6KgDawn of Victory: https://discord.gg/hUAynC3wConlangerama: https://discord.com/invite/ceKjZBr2jCComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97832365The Nemerii were a pastoral herding culture that occupied the central plains and forests south of the great desert, they are the most practical and grounded of their dark elven brethren. To the main adherents of their people a life not in the saddle on the backs of their Thurael birds is a life not worth living, this naturally puts them at odds with their more civilised neighbours and the settled and coastal Nemerii that are much more influenced by the Lacusii's Tollure(empire) and the theocratic Ignarii states. They are prized as messengers and guides through the continental interior, their skill at riding is largely unmatched until the arrival of the humans during their long decline. Even before the arrival of the humans they were a declining culture due to constant warfare with the Malorii tribes that plagued the continent. The plains Nemerii are largely extinct as a culture in the present day and the settled and coastal Nemerii are much more assimilated into the surrounding Lacusii and Ignarii. They would also influence the Oskun human peoples and heavily imprint the Tirnaeth with their language and culture. Their unique breeds of thurael riding birds are still the most prestigious today, fast and versatile but not strong enough to stand up to horse cavalry.
>>97794265>blue archive halo?Not him, but what's the deal with Blue Archive, anyway? I keep seeing them around, but I don't really get it.
>>97797528the anglos are the end point of inhumanity and you cant really go worse than them
>>97797528As anon said, great britain society only works if you go for dark fantasyHuman rights wise it was the worst place in Europe and often very backwards(very ironic because politic system wise they actually did pretty well and reformed system for it to work, but maybe because they were first to have something like Hanover-Stuart Wars). Only feudal japan can really compete with them in being a shithole
>>97816048just straight up steal them from 3.5 whole sale.Check out the wizard/sorcerer alternative class features (acf) as well as reserve feats
"What the fuck?! 'You guys' let the thread die with no link to the new thread" EditionHere 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 Ruler>Battle SpiritsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97833793Already got these not too long back. The mobility is going to be a strong defense in its own right.
>>97833793who stole Linza's tits?
>>97832629I should give riftbound another chance
Behold! It is I! The sole Star Wars Unlimited player on /acg/!
Is union arena fun to play? I like the idea of pitting anime vs anime like a shonen arena fighter, and somebody at the shop told me Evangelion was a pretty good set so I was thinking about giving it a shot.
I never realized how many players suffer from aphantasia and insist on using miniatures. Are you one of them, or do you embrace the unmatchable graphics of theater of the mind?
>we just need them to keep track of positioning!yeah, right. it always starts with just a few unpainted minis and a basic dry erase mat for "spatial awareness", and the next thing you know, the roleplay is completely dead, the story has ground to a halt, and you're spending three hours playing some tactical measure-your-fucking-cone silliness.miniatures are just a gateway drug to full-blown grid-shittery. play theater of the mind or go play wh40k.
>>97833410Document how theater of the mind players actually play. Take notes or record the session. And then read/listen back to it when you're not in the moment.
>>97833414Every single edition of D&D is correctly played on a grid.This isn't because of superiority of theater of the mind. This is because of the specifics of the D&D rules set, which is built around grid-based movement.
>>97834274>PLEASE ANON PLEASE>PLEASE DON'T KEEP TRACK OF WHERE MY CHARACTER IS>PLEASE I NEED TO BE ABLE TO CHEAT IN COMBAT>MY WIZARD NEEDS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY BE IN TOUCH RANGE BUT ALSO TEN FEET BEHIND THE FIGHTER BASED ON WHAT'S CONVENIENT FOR ME>B-but cones anonI can visualize what 15 foot cone looks like on a grid. Same for a 25, 30 and so on. Only an aphantasiac would struggle with not being able to visualize boxes on a grid.
>>97831518I have hyperphantasia, but still enjoy using minis and terrainThey are fun to paint and it makes things easier for the players
Reject all AI from TTRPGS! If a player uses AI to make a character portrait of their PC - BOOT THEM FROM THE GAME!If a player uses AI to make a character biography - BOOT THEM FROM THE GAME! If a GM uses AI to write an adventure for a session - QUIT THE GAME! If a GM uses AI to generate a picture of where the PCs are - QUIT THE GAME!If a GM uses AI to generate a battle map - QUIT THE GAME!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!REJECT AI FROM TTRPG!
>>97832776Good catch. Was the first of 3 attempts. A.I. is basically a retarded genius.>>97832815Pokémons were always fertile from the moment they hatched.
>>97818057but my GM is an ai. Problem athiest?
>>97833288ai is a tool of atheism, take that fedora off right now young man
>>97823361>There are viable alternatives to ms word,download libreoffice
>>97818057What's the difference between using random art online without crediting it and using AI for your portraits?
Tree 2 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.
>>97832934Hell yeah, sounds like typical dragon shit.
>>97834267I think he links them as proof of his schizo delusions though.
>>97834271not really a schizo delusion if he is posting his commissions though
>>97834272the compulsion to reply with this every time one is posted because he thinks he serving a higher purpose is a little schizo though
>>97834279Sure. Or he's trying to get clicks to his account.
Welcome to TODD!This thread is for OPEN discussion of TSR-era D&D (up to and including 2e), TSR-era settings, and related games, such as retroclones, OSR, and OSR-adjacent games. Free discussion of house rules is encouraged.>GamesIncluding but not limited to: OD&D, B/X, BECMI, AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, For Gold & Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, Shadowdark, Into the Odd, Mausritter, Cairn, Mörk Borg, DCC, Mothership, Knave, Troika!, White Hack, Black Hack.>What is this thread NOT for?Meta discussions and drama related to game creators and other /tg/ threads. We come in peace.>Resources2e fan wiki:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wiki2e archive:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97834297Wasn't that the point he was making? Of the 207 threads, 118 don't mention "first decade". He was explicitly making a list that excluded it.
>>97834217>>97834221Lmao last time you did this you forgot to clip out every time it said something like "the decade is the 1970s" and you for laughed out of the thread. So now you're doing it again with clipped OPs, no link, no screenshot, no anything. And even if it were true, which it isn't, it doesn't prove it was welcome, it only proves people couldn't be bothered writing it was.And it's 2019. Seven years ago. The time to complain about it was then, but you weren't around. You don't get to barge in many years later and whine like a bitch that you don't like how things are. Don't like it? Make your own thread.
>>97832336>>97832421>>97832584>If I false flag nobody will know I'm fishfag and it will prove fishfag doesn't existLMAO kill yourself you literal subhuman retard
>>97834320(First link to traveller Anon was a misclick of course.)
>>97834317>Don't like it? Make your own thread.Should we tell him?
How high would you rank the riding skill of the average Comanche Warrior in your system of choice? Explain your answer.
>>97833136>Are we talking about modern firearms or at least semi-modern firearms here?No.We are not talking about modern firearms. How in the world could you come to the conclusion that modern firearms were being talked about given the context of the post chain?
>>97829178>I'd run them in Runequest with the stat blocks of Praxian braves, just minus most of the magic and riding a regular horse rather than something mental like an ostrich or buffalo.>Actually, I'd specifically take their stat-block from the Ostrich riders, who are a rather savage Praxian tribe, and would make a fine analogue.I know next to nothing about Runequest but these covers always fascinated me, cool to hear what these covers were about.
>>97833203>How in the world could you come to the conclusion that modern firearms were being talked about given the context of the post chain?Because you used the present tense instead of past tense.
>>97827828Dex no lower than 3 (despite being NPCs)Riding 3 (they are NPCs), +1 point in Horses specialtyThis in total gives them average of 3.5 and thus able to automatically pull most of equestrian tricks and have 50% chance for the really hard stuff.Any important character gets either Riding or the specialty bumped a point. Any really important character gets their Dex bumped up
>>97827828They were tougher than Spaniards and Mexicans but got btfo by Americans once they got their shit together.
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>>97833277they could probably get more victims at a bus stop
Had a question as a beginner. Are there good youtubers (or books/text-based sources) that cover their thought process for chess games in minute detail, turn-by-turn? I know of Chess Vibes so I guess I'm looking for some more in that vein that go from first turn to last talking about their options and how they're approaching everything. Thanks.
>>97830814Sindarov status: not amused
>>97833993Hanging Pawns by Stjepan.
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