Should casters be able to hold their own in a fight, or should they be balanced around requiring protection from martial classes?
Look what I can do!
Casters were supposed to be frail, so the frontliners were there to protect them. That was the basic assumption and it still works like that in some japanese RPGs. In western systems that the casters quickly become completely self-sufficient, if they don't start like that already.
>>97831141Puckee's characters should all be killed, no exceptions. Also that art kinda sucks.
Welcome to /2eg/, a thread dedicated to all things 2nd Edition D&D related - including settings, lore, modules, and derived systems (Alternity, Buck Rogers XXVc, For Gold and Glory, Hackmaster, Myth and Magic, and more).Since 2e draws heavily from earlier editions, older modules are welcome too. Other media derived from AD&D (such as Infinity Engine video games) also has a home here.It's what you play, not how you play it. RAW or homebrew, as long as your table is having fun, there's no wrong way to play.There's a surprisingly complete 2e fan wiki for rules stuff, it's excellent for quick reference:https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_Edition_Wikiad&d 2e archiveaHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMjUwMjA0MTczNzUwL2h0dHBzOi8vdGhlLWV5ZS5ldS9wdWJsaWMvQm9va3MvcnBnLnJlbS51ei9EdW5nZW9ucyUyMCYlMjBEcmFnb25zL0FEJkQlMjAybmQlMjBFZGl0aW9uLw==Remember to keep things civil.Previous thread: >>97806516Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
> ACKS Errata v1.1 (unofficial circulation)"Clarification: Preserved fish counts as a valid medium of exchange for purposes of XP calculation when converted through trade."This is why fish loops can level domains faster than dungeons.
>>97828530I always loved that DMG art. Iiss old style oil painting art sometimes. This hit so hard for my metal head self back in the day.
>>97829560Easley is by far the most metal out of the four big TSR artists.
>>97830827He really is, that is a pure out metal. That could be an album cover.
>>97829266lol last time you went running to the mods they spanked you hard
Why do my genasis never get any love? I feel like these guys are made to be tumblr tier OC bullshit that would at least get me something cool in 5e.
>>97820249>Sorry, was banned for 3 daysHate when that happens.
>>97814522>FishWhat about other aquatic scents like flowers from lily pads, the ocean air, etc.?
>>97620627Then make some lore for your game, anon.
>>97825521Nails?
Gearhead thread but for /tg/Part of why I like to play ttrpg's is the analog aspect. I prefer to keep all digital things out of the experience. No laptops, ipads, phones at the table. Well, an exception can be made for googling something quick, but other than that, keep that shit in your pocket.I like to do my gm prep, world building, drawing maps, in notebooks. npc and character sheets etc.on paper.I really like MUJI stationery. Their notebooks are really nice, and their pens and pencils are amazing.I recently found some hex paper notebooks on amazon. That was really nice to use to draw some hex maps.Do you have any neat stationery or other analog "gear" that you really like? Could you share some of your cool items or showcase your note taking system or maps or whatever?
>>97823029>I'M NOT A PSYCHOPATH, PEOPLE ARE SIGNING UP ON WAITING LISTS TO BE FRIENDS WITH ME!Just stop anon.
>>97809050I don't really care if my players use apps/phones at the table, provided that they remain engaged with the game. If they're ready on their turn, and are actively participating, I don't care.For writing adventures, I have an Oxford college ruled notebook an Zebra Z-Grip ballpoint pens. There's something really nice about putting ink to paper.I still keep a MS Surface behind the screen to quickly look up rules though...
>>97809050I have come to preach the gospel of postcard paper!You can buy a hundred of them for some change. They're slightly thicker and less floppy than regular paper, and of a manageable size.I use whole-size for player abilities, half-sized for equipment, and quarter size for items and consumables.Players can just lay out everything they have at their disposal, flip equipment upside down when it's stowed, and toss consumables onto the table when they want to use them.They also make for good rooms in a point-crawl dungeon, and notes for dungeon specific information, which can all be stored together in a punched punched pocket.
>>97830938>I still keep a MS Surface behind the screen to quickly look up rules though...There's nothing wrong w/ doing both. Handwriting and actual books genuinely help your brain learn and engage better than screens. But screens are convenient and sometimes convenience is more important. It's good that you've got a mix, at all.
>>97831001>Index Card RPG intensifies
Trying Too Hard Edition>Previous>>97788480>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>5e Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyA>STV content foldersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Trolls are agitators of flame wars, rustlers of jimmies, and provocateurs of tomfoolery>CtD makes Trolls the honorable and righteous Kith???
>>97830649Wait till you hear about what the other Milklings get up to.
>>97826958Oh?>>97828172>Everything within the confines of the asteroid belt […] Jupiter and every planet past it are the same thing as their Shard Realms.Alright, more of a fan of the WH40K’s division between Astral and Material but space stations are still workable on other planets. I should look up if there are any canon colonies.>Almost all magic is coincidental in the Deep Umbra […] Maybe it's something to do with their paradigms.Huh, how curious. But that’ll make great enemies!>It's less hospitable to the more grounded paradigms […] so any Deep Umbra expeditions can't be longer than three months.Guess you can’t do year(s) long expeditions like Star Trek, but that just means you get to spend more time on Earth. I’m envisioning my teen character having a hard time to relate to other teenagers who haven’t been to space, never listen to music while floating in 0 G, never got army trained on a foreign land, or never fought for dear life against horrors beyond comprehension.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How much do each factions actually know of each other, individuals aside, does the Illuminati or technocracy know about the camarilla and sabbat and all that, what about the camarillas knowledge of them or the fae. Werewolves are so decentralized I don’t think there’s any real answer there.
>>97831204they know that they exist and the higher ups might have some telephone numbers to call each other in case they need to work together to keep up the masquarade and the general the higher up you go the more likely you are to find backdoor deals, but in general most splats know very little about each other with the former mages (tremere, nagaraja) turned vampires and the anti follower of set alliance being the exceptionno necromancer vampire or alive ever been to be labyrinth and back and most never even been down far enough to find striga the lasombra don't even know that the abyss is in the underworldthe technocratic union thought the week of nightmares was all of gehenna and the order of hermes assumed it must have been a tremere plot because those are the only powerful vampires they knowthe order of hermes didn't know that the tremere didn't use nodesfae assume that all other splats but mages are fae who forgotfae only know the difference between technomages and non technomagesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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?
>>97830373>>97830587Seriously, a lot of stuff like the whole endurance/persistence hunting meme has the exact same energy as the guy who wrote the Yasuke book, it's a lot of nonsense or outright falsehood pushed by a handful of people and then parroted because it sounds good.
>>97830587>>97830637oh no I'm well aware that notably wolves and horses also sweat extensively, and as a result are exceedingly high endurance, and even that milk is in fact a modified form of sweat so we know being able to sweat it's ancestral to mammals also I'm entirely aware of how much a meme persistence hunting was, our endurance was not a sole factor, but it did let us pursue wounded prey for extended periods to make the true gamebreaker of ranged weapons even more busted that said full body perspiration is not common among non-mammalian vertebrates and even among modern mammals it's not a widely adopted strategy since extensive fur coverage does reduce how effective it can beAnd it keeps bearing in mind that even though we're far removed from it for a lot of people, humans biologically remain savanna specialists and thus being able to cross long distances while keeping your temperature under control is still something we would be better at than aliens evolved under widely different conditionsspeaking of unusual traits, there's a good chance aliens wouldn't have milk or equivalent to it, which in turn could be considered our "really weird" trait and without the specific context of nurturing and behavioral adaptations for it, us letting our babies feed from our bodies directly could easily be considered disgusting
>>97827707>It's own HANDSThe emphasis just kills me dead.
I think this says it all, most HFY really is just narcissism/ego focused/participation trophy level fiction.
>>97831157The people who like HFY are just imagining a world where they don't get told 24/7 that they are evil for just existing.Also this is in a political clinate where measurably shit quality people are celebrated for just existing.
Pigheaded Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. 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, and it's very Blanchitsu.>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/They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97831174It's clearly a winning strategy.
>>97831224Is it?
>>97831228Are you baiting or just retarded?
>>97831257Indulge me and explain this winning strategy
>>97831273It was sarcasm, you fucking inbred dipshit.
Prostitution is the oldest profession. It has always existed and it will always exist. The presence of prostitutes and brothels is crucial for making a game setting and world feel realistic and lived in. Otherwise, it will lack all verisimilitude. So, tell us, how have you incorporated prostitution into your game?
>>97811889>The presence of prostitutes and brothels is crucial for making a game setting and world feel realistic and lived in.No
>>97811889https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97826940/
>>97811889This looks like shit.
>>97811889I would never tell my players they can't solicit a prostitute in a decent sized settlement, but i'd forbid them from going into any detail about it, make them deduct money to pay them, then make them roll a d8 to see if they catch VD
>>97830052mods altered my post to protect fuckeehttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97822226/
Does your character show kindness to the unfortunate?
>>97826067>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1l4rkhq/artcomm_luckless_len_fantasy_medieval_beggar_npc/https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/LfTktpJsd5AE7-XYgVmWtQ/>19 times since April 2025
>>97826067Traditional games?
>>97826952Skill issue.
>>97826067https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97826940/
>>97830078the mods altered my post to protect fuckeehttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97822226/
NATO intervention editionPrevious thread:>>97576097>Thread Question: What have you been working on recently?>Community Summary of Wargames: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises: http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes: Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Does anyone have a link to the 3rd ed japanese book for bolt action? It's not in the most recent trove, and the main BA trove is woefully out of date.
>>97829403>Obligatory Schizohooks shillingThank you for reminding me to update the OP next time.
>>97829149>What is your main site now?Painting alone in my basement.
>>97829790>no one can talk about a popular wargaming title without anon seething There is a schizo itt, but it's not who you think it is
>>97829132>>97829149>>97829403Thanks bros I'll look into it; are there any other historical mini games out there with a deep/autistic combat system? BW looked like a shrimple game but I was wanting something a bit more interesting
30-50 Feral Ogryns editionPrevious Heresy: >>97802085>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.
>>97829989bifocalsor just a pair of reading glasses
>>97829404>not doing a power lance phalanx
>>97830350That very much WAS a consideration. But I went with axes because it felt more appropriate for NL, who seem more the "brutish" type to me. (also the mechanical reasons given).
>>97829989Hold the model in the palm of your hand, go in sideways, don't (DON'T) overload your brush. I prefer to use contrast these days for eyes, with regular acrylics as the highlight.
>>97828333Well I haven't been painting as much stuff as I focus my hobby time on other games but I did finish this vet squad the other day.
future world champion edition>Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16th- grenke Chess Festival | April 2nd - 6th- Menorca Open | April 7th - 12th- European Individual Chess Championship | April 7th - 19th- Lichess Spring Marathon | April 18th- Chesscom Open Playoffs | April 23rd - 26th- TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament | May 1st - 7th- Sharjah Masters | May 1st - 9th- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | May 3rd - 10thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hikaru is now the great Mr 6 7 for that deep think.
>>97830814He should have waited 5 more minutes to beat Grischuk's record.
>>97830814Would allowing the players to have a paper and pencil to do calculations or take notes reduce the amount of time that players take on thinking? Would it increase the level of play? Would it lead to more draws?
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #601"The new face of Handtraps" EditionPrevious thread: >>97788606Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97829391There's varying degrees of how combo oriented things are. The type of combo you are dealing with in the image you posted tends to end up more common in the lower ranks, as a bit of a quirk of the game.These decks are often "All or Nothing" where they either go off fully or can't go off at all. Handtraps kill them, but going second board wipes can have difficulty. Though if you do Crack their board, they often expended too much to rebuild a board.At higher ranks, you see this less often as while some can get very strong when uninterrupted, you can also break them more as they lean towards consistent rebuilding over X number of omni-negates.You can still get stuck with bad games, but the >>97829402 Ancient Gear list gets better there as it is more tuned to these higher levels.
My friends and some coworkers and getting the 2002 packs and doing a tourney. Everytime we do one we'll add a couple more packs. Gonna be a complete mess, I'm excited
>>97829391>where am i going wrong here, Lack of handtraps like you mentioned. It isn't mandatory to run them, but they are how you interact with your opponent when they go first. Only other way would be blowout going-second cards or kaijus/kaiju-likes (the Kaiju series, Lava Golem, Sphere Mode, etc).>are there no midrange and control decks like there are in magic?People typically combine Control(Control) with Stun(Stax) in this game. Purest Control decks would probably be Radiant Typhoon or Sky Striker. You could also run Runick as a Control deck if you forego the floodgates(stun cards). It's a true-blue control deck that exiles your opponent's deck when their effects resolve, where your win condition is to deck out your opponent or make them ragequit.>and is the entire main format meta really this insanely combo oriented?Slightly less than what you were playing against? That's a Stardust/Synchron deck at a glance, and that deck is characterized by its obnoxious combos. >it seems like even something simple like limiting special summons to 3 a turn would fix a lot of the issuesIt would actually make the game nigh-unplayable. Even a lot of weaker and casual decks need to special summon-- including Ancient Gear. Best options to counter that as of now are cards like Nibiru (tributes the entire field after their 5th summon) or Maxx "C"/Fuwalos (draw cards when your opponent special summons). The latter two are more common since there isn't really a context where you want your opponent to draw cards... save maybe for the matchup you were in, where they CAN summon enough to force you into deckout.Combo Decks are the devil. Decks that combo are not. Knowing is half the battle.
>>97830140Looks expensive
>>97827790Not even rogue tier? sadgeI liked the aesthetic and I love the works of Lewis Carroll so maybe I'll do it just for thatI was also considering exosister but idk if it can survive blazing dominion format>It'd be like wanting to play dracotail after RA05 with just faimena and the cheap cards, but no lukias, phryxul and arthalion.Dracotail has no $17 cards lmaoIt's also generic enough so you can run a small (and cheap) package in most decks without any locks
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn (embed)>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97829168Build! Huzzah!Wasn't expecting to see one for this.What kind of wings you go for?
>>97827432>>97827432>I had grown fairly good at understanding who I could trust with such powers. However this time the threat came from without instead of within.Good to see that growth and coming into your own a bit.>Half Celestial Kitsune (150)Very fluffy. I approve.Interesting time you've had here Riaanon. You had to fight some of the worlds bigger forces and stood you're ground. Even if its a less powerful setting thats still impressive. A good milestone.
>>97827469>You know how people sometimes feel impulses to do bad things, but with the Good subtype (which I think you should have as a Half Celestial) you instead feel good impulses, and doing anything evil would be as unnatural and unpleasant as an arachnophobe looking at a collage of spider pictures.Not that anon but thats a fun idea. I might nab that and use it somewhere in my own writing if I can think of how to somewhere.
>>97831184One of the D&D 3.5 jumps can get you there, adding an Alignment subtype is a thing that can be done with a ritual, but an easier path would be Tome of Radiance. Reaching level 20 in one of the three base classes gives you the Good subtype.
>>97831215>but an easier path would be Tome of Radiance. Reaching level 20 in one of the three base classes gives you the Good subtype.A surprising number of ideas and issues in Jumpchain can be resolved by becoming a magical girl it seems.Kyuubi must be ecstatic.
So who are your favorite waifus in DnD?
>>97820804This >>97821795Also BG3 and Critical Role spawned a fuckton of DnD r34. >>97821294Very fun. The players beat the 8 Wraiths I had set up to protect the magic artifact they're going to use to slay the final boss. Unfortunately one them won't be able to attend the final session due to a family gathering. >>97822122>ArtificerUnderstandable. There are literally zero good NPC artificers in DnD. >BardCompanion from Neverwinter Nights.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97820569Cleric
>>97822122>no idea who this isHow the fuck have you not played NWN?
I'm old school. Aleena awoke 10 year old me back in the day.
>>97831180youre waifu a shit*shoots magic missile out of my cock right into her face*
