Welcome to Mecha Monday! Here we dedicate ourselves to mecha RPGs, wargames, and boardgames alike. Here we start games, tell campaign stories, share resources & assets, and seek advice for our games and homebrew.Assorted Mecha Goodness:https://pastebin.com/E2wi55AZEmbryo Machine Translation:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r_cjOLuUp3HussVRhbQYU3G0zK6hwy1rLancehounds Homebrew:M3g4 folder/eMEBUbCL#kj2FRrlqTa-02U16XpnVRgPrevious Thread:>>97092391Question of the Thread:Should mecha have hands? Should the hands be humanlike? If they shouldn't have hands, what should they have? If no hands, why even have arms?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97262762your GM might rule that you can't put the 2nd Javelins adjacent to the 1st, but that's up to him, otherwise it seems like a good damage dealer in exchange for an overcharge and a limited system use assuming you manage to hit everything and the enemy fails all their saves
>>97262788Also keep in mind that it wouldn't work against NPCs with Heavy Frame unless you were also a big boy yourself.
>>97262762Lancer is a PvE videogame.
>>97262788i mean, RAW it doesn't say you can't place them next to previously placed javelins. it just says you can't place the contents of a single salvo next to each other.>>97262896And it also jobs to armor, since it's all technically instances of 3 damage or less.But 21 damage is a hell of a single target nova, and 9 isn't bad for single target costless.
>>97262919we're using SWN for the narrative stuff and any time we're not in a mech combat.
All things come to an end, including 2025 (edition)>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97248359 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97262393Stimky gote mama for smooching
>>97262884more like BIG DICK HAHAHAHAbut yeah that sounds cool, I might do something similar but have smaller mortal followers on docks and shores while the bigger units can use 3d printed undersea bases. Maybe their lore is they're tormenting some Idoneth, perhaps sniping their souls before Slaanesh can get them.
>>97262817>maggotkin but they've got a bright color scheme with fish parts and wearing swimtrunks and hawaiian shirtswould be kino
>>97261720Ok but real talk.Nagash would Lose
>>97262920Nagash in ToW? Yeah maybe. Nagash in AoS? He is a capital G God, the Emperor is only a lowercase g god.
How do we fix Steampunk?
>>97258584Ask yourself this. Would God see (You) as a retard the same way we do? Someone who can shitpost casually isn’t really shitposting on their end. It’s just what they do.Don’t respond back to me.>>97258172Didn't know about this until I read you. I concur in that we live in the shittiest cyberpunk dystopia possible
>>97258738>Would God see (You) as a retard the same way we do? Is an ant a retard?
>>97257225NAYRT but Anon, the joke is that Shadowrun is set in Seattle/Washington State by default.
>>97259948>states are giant, monocultured monocities with exact equal distribution of wealth and crime
>>97253579>>97253623>magic is just exotic technology>everything magic does can be described by in-universe sciencefantasy settings that take this approach are universally shiteven if it makes logical sense, I reject it on this basis alone
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.PREVIOUS THREAD>>97206318
>>97259556You lost son?
>paying for unplaytested rules that make playing a worse experiencePretty sure that's not a game, that's a scam.
>>97255331>Where are the hexmaps bro? Where are the dungeoncrawls?They were inside you all along.
>>97253053Didn't Ernie jr publish something along those lines?
>>97258956I read them. None of this soft, low engagement click play and attention drifts off business. I actually had to actively engage with the books look at the words, turn pages, even remember where I was up to since bookmarks are for sissies.They are bad. They are Troy Denning fiction which should tell you enough already. Writing games he is good at, writing fiction is not his strength.Most of the characters are barely likeable, thankfully Rikus is one of the tolerable ones. He splits the party only not in a good Tolkien way, not even in a not too bad Dragonlance first trilogy way. The good thing about that is it gets rid of the other characters for a while, the bad thing is it gets rid of the tolerable ones for a while. They're just not believable as people.The action is all over the place. It jumps around with terrible pacing. Long periods of nothing then Denning remembers he's supposed to be advancing the plot and it's rushed. Challenges are pulled out of nowhere as hard as Palpatine was pulled out of the grave to replace Snoke.The wizard woman turns into a Mary Sue even compared to the other characters. In a story already story full of Mary Sues this is something spectacular. Characters have the implausible ability to travel at the speed of plot rather than by believable means. When they're not on stage things just develop conveniently. The wizard woman's powers just develop. There's no sense of threat after the first novel, and not much in that one.Of course, they take on the worst bad guys around, how else can they do anything else in a fantasy novel, but in doing so they make a mockery of the the Dragon, a unique monster who's supposed to the baddest bad guy around, so bad that he was created solely to be badder than and to keep in check the next baddest bad guy.>>97257781They are bad. You can ignore them and you can ignore every reference to the metaplot even if it might be a little convenient to have Tyr free from a sorceror king.
Happy New Year’s Eve and Calibration 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.
>>97262194Kind of ironic considering how guns affect masquerade's vampires, maybe it was because of aberrant.
>>97262194>Everything has changed a lot in the last 25 years in the attitudes of RPG players.No. Gunfags still act like that.
>>97262482I still see it in Exalted. "A machine gun could wipe out solars" like bro a stream of bullets is just an AoE attack. Or the whole "Well it'll give mortals a way to attack long distances" which honestly how do you even argue.I personally like to think of guns as first age artifacts and very magical. So no machine gun, but lasers, revolvers, canons... All working because of the prayers delicately carved into their frame. Along with gunpowder that needs to be blessed to work properly. Think about how they treat guns in the Dark Tower.
What name did you give to your Alchemical? What Caste are they? Why are they called that?
>>97262482>>97262566What I mean is that we're perfectly accustomed to Exalted being able to no-sell guns, and even having some heroic mortals managing bullet dodging by the skin of their teeth. There may always be people weird about guns, but the game is never going to support guns being an equalizer between Exalted and mortals. The guns that are impressive to Exalted are the kind of Artifact guns and blasters in Shards of the Exalted Dream, and they're only deadly because one of the Chosen, a god, etc. is committing motes to them.
Holiday cheer editionPrevious:>>97223714Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqSeasonal TQ:>How do you deal with friends&family absolutely resistent to any form of game teach?>Will anon repeat his autistic data gathering endevour this year?Actually interesting TQ:>How important is winning to you? Almost noone is a mustwin-tourneyfag, but we all tend to like games we are good at more, conciously or subconciously.
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>>97262829Finally got around Chu Han, it's a pretty neat little 2 player take on President. Probably a bit too long for its own good, but I think it wins out over his Winter Court if only because tug of war can feel inherently pales compared to destroying/being destroyed across multiple tricks. I'm also a sucker for tempo focused card games and both of them use it well, so they'll both probably stay for now.That said, I am consistently amazed by how much the gulag despises anything closely related to classic games that has an ounce of luck. >The Great Dalmuti - 6.6>Koi Koi - 6.5But call it a trick taker and you'll have a cult defending the most inane rules to chose the trump that would make Knizia blush
>>97260135I already have, plus two expansions, and have considered giving it away for a bit but idk to whom. Wyrmspan does everything Wingspan does but better, aside from the critters. I wonder what I could houserule on Wingspan to make it more enjoyable, because those birds are pretty cute.>>97260392>you MUST reveal your friends' genders so I can catalogue them in my /bgg/ dox folder
>>97262899dude what's wrong with you? your post is dripping with paranoia
>>97262908As spoken by someone who definitely does not have a dox folder.
>>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.
>>97259931Where can I sign up?
>>97260603Thanks anon.
>>97260560I get the marketing and whaling. Was more perversely curious if they're >required and what they actually do. Because it mostly looks like a D6 with 2 things on it. Might have something inside it but can't really tell from the light and if they went into dice-inside-a-dice it would be retarded in a delightful way.
>>97262059I'm 100% certain they can be translated to plain d6. Any fancy gizmos would detract from their most important feature, profit.
>>97239212You too? I impulse bought these two spidergwens from a used bookstore couple days ago thinking I could just cut them off their bases and they'd fit in with 28mm but these bitches are making my other dudes look like wolverine. What am I supposed to do now just tribute them?
What is the correct way to handle female priestess? Historically women weren't part of the clergy, so you don't have a lot of references to drawn from in regards to their attitude.
>>97260623don't day your quit job
>>97260623Don't job your quit day.
>>97254880>Historically
>>97262841presumably on Atlantis, because that too never actually happened
They are a common fantasy trope character, there is a lot references to draw from.
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>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.
>>97259539>fiance Faggot
>>97258020>Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?Bronze Age collapseI just painted my first minis ever. I'm painting 15mm Germans and Americans. It looks meh. Besides the stupid skin tone which I will fix after buying some more paint tomorrow, what can I improve? (The base isn't primed yet, ignore that)
>>97258020>Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?Dunno really, more interested in good rules rather than particular eras which tends to push me towards popular eras with more attention from rules writers. Sam Mustafa's Aurelian is on the cards down the track though, and I'd love to run Over The Hills and Far Away but that would be a big project readying it.
anyone know any cults/my mini factory makers of 30yw/english civil war era miniatures? Thus far Atlantic Games has a pretty solid line of renaissance era stls, and I've found the odd miniature arquebusier character on cults, but not much else.
>>97259539Wing of Glory is pretty simplified and you need specific sets of cards for each aircraft. Expensive and limited options with aircraft. It is a "programming" game, where each player plays 3 cards with movement arrows on them, then players reveal 1 card at a time simultaneously, and their aircraft makes the move.Blood Red Skies is also quite simplified, there is no altitude or speed, aircraft are either 'advantaged' 'disadvantaged' or 'neutral', and the flight stand tilts the aircraft forward or backward to represent this.If you want something that actually has altitude and speed taken into account, and has pretty much every WW2 aircraft (including bombers, ground attack, night fighters) - Lacquered Coffins might be the way to go. It tracks speed and altitude with 2 dice on the base of an aircraft, and is dead simple to play, no custom cards or flight stands required.Also how that fuck are people posting with these new Captcha's....
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Sheev I'm NJO editionPrevious: >>97217145Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97262108Lol, Empireaboo mad as per usual. Newsflash Gordo, the good guys do always win and the bad guys do always lose, it's a fairytale in space. By the way, I don't mock you because you like the Empire, the Empire are cool, I mock you because you *don't* like the Empire, you're just too much of a fucking coward to collect WW2 Nazi armies like so you obviously want to.
>>97262215I don't get your schizo rantMy point is you need the villains to be a fucking threat to make victories look important. If the Empire always loses then it makes them a total fucking joke and the OT becomes pointless cause the Rebels would have won anyways. It's why George made the Empire win various times in the OT: they take over the Tantive, they successfully kill Ben, they win all throughout ESB and both Yavin and Endor are barely victories with tons of Rebel casualties. Lucas knew how to make the Empire threatening, Henry doesn'tThis is the exact same thing we all complained about with TCW, the Republic always wins and the CIS always loses which makes the war a fucking joke.
>>97262208yeah just like that. I think the ak has almost enough greebly details as is, it just needs some fantastical aspect to it to help it blend into the setting.
Sweaty Padawan girls who explore the living Force together
>>97259234Joruus C'Baoth? You have internet at Mount Taniss?
Have you ever roleplayed a female character?
>>97258094Was she raped
>>97261221No I'm not. I meet up with a group of men weekly, where I am directed by a rotund gentleman to mathematically determine the most likely actions of a fictional woman borne of asexual dream alchemy. I do this, not for pleasure, but because this make believe woman needs a cosmic puppeteer, dammit. I am her guardian angel, not the lace-bedecked beauty herself. Not the chocolate skinned brewer of bubbly farts (not my fetish. Hers. I am not her). I merely let her walk the streets of my hometown clad in my flesh, that is, in turn, clad in as close an approximation of her imagined outfit as I can bungle together. I am not her.
>>97259979>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevali%C3%A8re_d%27%C3%89onfuck off
>play female halfling>make my picture on dnd beyond the porn star, dolly little >all players make jokes about how I’m their gf to NPCs >last session, a player playing basically an Indian guy was smelling my feet while I was asleepDo I regret playing a hot girl? YesAm I secretly hoping that I get killed off? Sometimes Do I now have a superficial understanding of what it’s like to be a hot girl in a group of all guys? No comment
I'm doing it right now in a cyberpunk campaign. She's a confident businesswoman who's climbing the corpo ladder and occasionally goes out to party. She may entertain some fuckboy male PCs, depending on how well they can dance. If she finds an output that really tickles her fancy, she may share her apartment with them. Don't ask about her past, it's 3edgy7u.
Trench Raiding With The Lads Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. 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, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>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/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97262058>Twitter might be actually retarded
>>97261465Being the gigantic cocksucker that he is, he got pooper pained about the creators making it clear the game’s official discussion boards and discords weren’t a refuge for ‘chuds’. Which is fair enough, I’m a chud and I also didn’t want to see the spergier members of my community spilling the spaghetti everywhere. Where Arch comes in is that he’s been on a one-handed crusade to try to destroy TC ever since. He took that shit personally, which is a petty and childish reaction, and his faggot followers have been following his lead ever since.
>>97261864Anons please... Tell me ur lore.I demand it.
>>97261409I did, still dont have my fucking book
>>97262556ATP I'm just going to get my own unofficial one made for myself.
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllSync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Multiplayer Compilations: https://rentry.org/MCYOA_Comp_CompIn Case of Emergency, Break Glass: https://rentry.org/mcyoagCanaryThreadslave Rentry: https://rentry.org/ThreadKeeping2Backup Rentry: https://rentry.org/ThreadKeeping3I'm so tired of all this EditionPrevious Thread: >>97239356
>>97262387hell yeah
>>97262543all me btwI am MEANIE ANON and I will be MEAN to YOU
>>97262555meanie anon why do you hate me
>>97260295Anything by the HLA has been kino.
>>97260384Bloody Mist so we can finally have killing school kino? JITE doesn't count.
Welcome to /wbg/, the 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. 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, cunt!Last thread: >>96999149Worldbuilding links: Post someFantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
>>97260911The free version is super bare bones, doesn't even have private articles.I'd probably get the first paid tier and if I reeeaaaally like it I may go to the next one.
>>97261121You're pants on head retarded if you're paying for gamified SaaS when there are free offline programs that do the same thing.
>>97261358Any suggestions?
>>97261121>doesn't have private articlesI swear it used to, and allowed up to like 200 of them too
>>97261605Read the thread dumbass >>97245537
ca/tg/irls, have you ever roleplayed a MALE character?(inspired by the other thread, because why not)
>>97256921>so he can't try to flirt with me using his character.YWNBAW
>>97256921Yes, but it triggered my gender dysphoria
>>97261208I bet he could hold his breath for ten minutes.
>>97256921During my cringey HS/college Tumblr days I used to play male characters because I always said I was a gay man in a woman's body. Now it's like a 50/50 split.
>>97259127I'm a dude but my playgroup is 4 women and 2 men, and only one of the women hasn't played a male character at one point or another. One of them has played almost exclusively male characters.The thing they actually won't do is GM. Me and the other man have played less characters, because one of us is typically GMing, but we've both only played men also in the games we have been in, although I'm considering a female PC for an upcoming campaign (I don't like evil/scumbag characters and the next one is apparently going to work best with mercenary, money-focused PCs, so I'm leaning toward an orphanage matron who has taken up thieves guild work to fund the institution. Feels more natural for the PC to be a woman. Still a human though, I'm not a freak.).So anyways, the women in our group run cross gender PCs way more than the men.
