>>97385117
fan clients always have to lie kind of low because wotc is very litigious. it'll happen "someday" but that someday probably needs to be after the game goes oop.

>>97385089
it's definitely a big part of what made the game so fast and unforgiving.

>>97385117
I mean, just having to implement all the cards and interaction is a huge work, let alone work on the rest of the client features. I hope that one day mtgo will be onwed by a company that cares about it and has to will to make it more modern and sleek.

>>97386473
With mtg at least you have a database. and Oracle text is almost pseudocode. you could automate a lot of it.

>>97385089
Power creep on cards isn't the problem, as other Anons have pointed out there have always been powerful cards and combos. There are cards that are banned in every format for being too powerful, and they tend to be incredibly old ones. A powerful card is negligible, on its own. There will always be other cards that completely wall it, or prevent it from being played in the first place. The problem is that it isn't just a powerful card thrown in to a deck full of janky rubbish, like it was in the old days, it's a carefully optimised and streamlined deck where every card is powerful, versatile, and synergistic. This problem doesn't even really have anything to do with how powerful the individual cards are, it's a result of vastly increased availability of information. As soon as a set releases, the community knows every card in it. The best minds in the community come up with the best decks, and then everyone else plays those decks. There's no room for an individual player to discover something original, or for a localised metagame to develop based on the cards you and your friends discovered in your limited amount of pack opening. The way we as gamers approach games of all kinds has fundamentally changed since those times, and the only way to properly recapture the feeling of early MtG would be to make a new game that couldn't be datamined or theorycrafted to oblivion.

>>97390978
that's part of it, but it's also definitely massive power creep. a given amount of mana gets you about three times the creature now that it did in the old days.

>>97363943
>This is excellent for ideas, I love it. Thank you!
I'm glad it's helpful! No problem. I like your ideas as well.

>>97358910
Looking at it from completely the opposite end of schizo-kun, a completely utilitarian take would boil these down into base mechanical categories, with optional flavour available.
>disease becomes a generic hazard, which can be expanded to include natural traps (quicksand, bog, razor nettles, poisonous spores, lava pools, cliffs etc)
>animal problem/encounter becomes a generic obstacle to overcome through various checks, and also covers stuff like difficult terrain (fallen logs, uneven turf, rocky screes and so on)
>hostile encounter is already generic.
I feel like weather should be an ongoing effect though, otherwise it just becomes a weird blip instead of shaping the entire experience (like actual weather does).

It needs more tradeoffs, imo. You've got a good one there with the shortcut (a 50/50 chance of making additional progress). That's the biggest, most important choice - HOW you get there. Do you wanna climb the valley for the better view, risking exhaustion, or are you gonna follow the windy floor and take a time penalty?

I've tried my hand at a few travel systems in my time, but none ever really stuck the landing. Think it's because they need a really good core gameplay loop - something simple but evocative, satisfying and addictive without needing a shittonne of prep. Still searching.

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>>97372780
This is thought provoking.
I think my current iteration is to separate journey fortunes/complications from encounters. Namely, Pathfinding specifically determines the following: Do you reach the desired destination at the end of this leg of the journey (and, if yes, how long does it take you to get there) and did you experience a complication or good fortune on the way.

A few things I've revised:
>Pathfinding rolls are now opposed rolls against a roll made by the GM (in secret). This allows for some obfuscation of the result as well as let's the pathfinder treat the roll as their character's perception of how well they know the route.
>Encounters and journey complications/fortunes will be SEPARATE.
>Encounters will include environmental choices including the tradeoffs you mention: do you choose route A or B? Do you do X or Y?

Agree that weather needs to be more pressing and its duration should matter more.

We are all chasing that white whale. I think I'm going in the right direction.

>>97358910
I like what I read so far. I would suggest something I do for traveling mechanics. When it comes to disease make the players roll for that themselves. Rather than someone randomly getting it. (Horses, and other animals can be done by GM.)

I make those who aren't eating properly and are hungry/straving more likely as well as those tired, etc. Also make those without Surival dependent on others for gathering food and all. (Risk of eating posion, without something to help them tell what they can and can't eat.)

>>97384184
I appreciate the insight. When you mean have the players roll, would it be a sort of "short straw" roll based on Might (my system combines strength and constitution into a singular stat). Absolutely agree with people who have certain conditions to be at a greater risk.

What do you think about: if disease triggers, the players roll a Might test (-D6 modifiers for each condition such as hungry, tired, etc). Any player who fails this test contracts the disease? (players can then roll what the disease is). Then it's a matter of figuring out how to treat the disease.

>>97390682
The worst part is I had plans for a heist on Footfall that I was really getting into. I looked up hotel floorplans, I watched Ocean's 11 and other flicks, I had a list of cool loot they'd have in their vault and security measures for the thing, I had an NPC I would've used to get the ball rolling - a mafia boss type of guy who wanted a family heirloom and didn't much care about the rest of the vault (who could very easily have become a future plot point - what was the thing he wanted, why was it so important to him? Was it a Warrant? An ancient starmap? Archaeotech? Maybe even a Halo device? Did they players actually give it to him, or did they split, and now he's after them and fucking pissed?)
Point being, I'm very irritated I didn't get to run that heist, even if I probably wouldn't have realistically had the time to do so. It lives on a shelf in the back of my brain now, with all the characters I've never gotten to play.
>>97390710
Do you nab one or two guys to pad out an already existing group, or do you yank a gagglefuck of utterly unrelated morons and then weld them together with sheer autistic will?

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>>97390822
I yank gagglefucks of utterly unrelated morons together. These guys then usually coalesce into a team, but there's usually one or two who dip out from in-game or other disagreements, so I replace them with a new moron. I prefer new peeps because they bring new perspectives into things. After each series, some leave, and some stick around for future series. I've got a bunch of peeps now who are "regulars", from peeps I knew in college to veterans from multiple games, and they often help with mechanics, testing, and ideas. However, every new series is ALWAYS free-range clusterfuck recruitment with no favoritism. Just because I've known someone a long time doesn't mean they automatically get in.

The past few years though, since about 2022, it has been admittedly hard to find new players, since the entrenchment of what counts as "real" 40k has gotten REALLY bad, and the last two series were mostly my regulars.

>>97390710
>Dredging randos can work
Yeah, just gotta vet the group carefully and set clear expectations early on. My group of random joes has lasted for 101 sessions and counting. A few players came and went due to life getting in the way, but a consistent "core" group arose from the turnover. It's been a fun ride.

>>97389724
Seems I did get you confused. The guys not giving a shit about their world sounds like an issue with that specific group, good luck if you can fix wherever you're grabbing em from.

>>97390956
>since about 2022
>since when covid brought in a ton of normalfags into the hobby
Checks out, sadly

>>97390927
Learn to spell the words you mean to use, please.

I'm shocked that the sorcerer who is constantly offtopic + trolling also is ESL. Wow who could have seen that coming

>>97390748
The price difference is less than you'd expect when the factories are a few hours away. The companies doing it at volume aren't breaking the bank especially with how much margin is in this shit when you look at the dweebs (in here) buying boxes at a 30% markup for some games

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>my main online shop lists gundam starters as 'preorders open soon'
>release date happens, starters are now listed as 'out of stock'
>ask them what the fuck happened, they say they're still waiting on stock
>they remove the preorder price and just change them to the RRP, still listing as OOS.
how very israeli

>>97391070
Every store is doing this in NA at least in terms of cooking preorders to their benefit. There's no accountability and no regulation. Board game shops are abhorrent for it, just look at what Boardgamebliss gets away with. Shit, it's basically the DDR5 nonsense right now.

With the amount of money and volatility and money in tcgs, it's only going to get worse. Not proxying at this point and stocking up on sleeves and playing cards to back them is a big mistake the way things are trending

>>97391070
Either wait it out or buy singles

>>97390760
ryonafags should not straight up die, they should choke on their blood over several hours

>>97391015
Explain. Also not all western art is sparkle dog style just like not all Kemono art is moeslop style

>>97391346
>slop
Opinion discarded.

>>97391026
???????

>>97391346
>slop
Retard.
>explain
Read the post again until you understand it. Or ask grok to think for you, I don't care.

>>97385466
Sounds like a quirky ol dude.

>>97376959
anti-AI is like some special brand of autism and it's becoming far more annoying than the AI itself

>>97386739
I had someone beaking at me how ai uses up water or something it was really contrived.

>>97385320
Reminds me of some of the people in my city

>>97375833
drink

>>97387438
Sometimes I use "The big wash" where I borderline pour it on. It can make a cream cloak into a yellow one better than any layering.

Other times I do gap filling with milliput after the basecoat and wash. It's easier to see gaps like that. Then I just paint over it and wash it. This also lets me do arms in assembly better

Painting on contrast and then painting that with medium while it's already on the figure to make it flow good and become a wash. This works wonders on shields

To do straps and webbing I paint black, then white on the top, then wash really heavy black on the sides and top, then white again.

I cut integrated bases off and only base after a figure is fully painted. I also fully build and paint each base before gluing a figure on.

Sometimes I wash a colour with the exact opposite shade to make it duller instead of mixing paints. This works well.

Technical paints can be washes if you force them to be.

>>97391076
>Then again, we are all to blame, since we still buy their stuff.
well the minis are really cool, so...

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>>97387438
This is obvious bait.

>>97391236
>Hello fellow eldar!

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>>97352571
So Roger Zelanzany's "Lord Of Light"?
Great novel 10/10 you should read it

>>97365999
Pls recommend me a Linda Nagata book set in this sort of world.

>>97368740
>the sun is at the end of its life span
>humanity hasn't colonized the stars in all that time
We deserve extinction if this happens

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>>97355211
I do enjoy the autism of FF14's aether and how it relates to literally everything in setting. I wish more settings and authors put that much effort in and are able to maintain the consistance that makes for unique story telling and emotional pay off of reading something from way back when and connecting it with the new data provided.

>>97352571
why

>>97391279
Hey anon, we're going to play (x). What's that? You don't want to? That's a shame. We'll let you know next time we're playing dungeons and dragons 3.5 edition.
Let me know if you change your mind.

>>97389502
Same energy as the reddit mod begging video lmao

>>97389273
Never seen the imperium launch white crusades into the eye of terror

Why are 40K fans so against women in their hobbies? You think they want some pussy for once.

It just doesn't make any sense if you took a little girl and loaded her with testosterone and tank making drugs for 10 years they should just look like a dude either way.

>>97391260
they dont want pussy in their hobby they want their hobby in their hobby you drooling retard

>>97390268
female orc streetwalker

>>97391032
>Live in a small village
>Keep a sickle handy
>Mix up a brew that will imbue your allies with might once in a while
All it takes, really.

>>97391032
Care about and try to represent the natural world through the lens of your character's cultural upbringing.

>playing an Orc Druid
>he believes it's the intrinsic right of any living creature to fight for their own survival
>generally believes that symbiotic relationships make things easier for everyone but that sometimes survival is a zero sum game
>will not hesitate to do what is necessary for his own survival or the survival of his people, and does not begrudge opponents for trying to do the same if they cannot coexist

Need some advice, I'm starting my very first campaign in a few days. The DM has played with a different group for a few years but all players have little to no experience.
I built my dude and am now wondering how much effort I should put into backstory and the flavor side of things. I made him pretty a pretty generic sword and shield fighter on purpose to keep things simple. How can I make sure that I can roleplay a consistent and somewhat interesting character, without having to come up with a novel worth of backstory

>>97367290
jesus christ that's excessive

>>97386765
A broken clock may be right twice a day, but you can't tell when it is right unless you have a second, working, clock to compare it to.
This is not a redeeming factor of the broken clock, because if you have a working clock to check it by then you don't need to reference the broken one at all. The maximally useful information the broken one could convey is done as a matter of course by the working one.
Your only concern should be potentially misidentifying a slow clock (potentially useful if you are aware of its limitations) as a broken one.

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>>97385470
At what point do they stop being schizophrenia and start being real?

>>97388722
When they can effect the physical world without your presence.

Anyone know where I could get a strong training booster that is limited to stuff you already have potential/talent for?

Like a mage with it could rapidly advance their magic, but not necessarily their martial prowess.
I want to avoid spreading my jumper's skillset too far and prefer specializing, but if you can become a master of anything in a few weeks/months that doesent really make sense.

>>97387824
It just felt so aimless for very long periods of time and then when something actually happens it's usually started and resolved in the same episode.
The idol gets more screen time than the main heroine it feels like, and I really didn't like her. Lots of episodes meandered and didn't really give us any deeper insights into the main characters or the plot. Main girl is cute and a good partner for the main character but their romance plot only starts in the semifinal episode.

It just feels very empty at points, and not in a slice of life way. Nothing happens and we don't get to interact with the characters that matter as much as we should.

If it were me I would focus less on the super-of-the-week early on or at least focus more on the main characters and their interactions as they go about it. Cut the idol completely. Focus more on how MC likes main girl after the trauma episode so that the conversion doesn't come out of nowhere with zero impact.
But at that point it's a different show in a different genre, so I'll shut my mouth and accept that I was looking for something else and I'm just complaining that I didn't find it. I do think it durdled around too much on irrelevant things and didn't give enough attention to the things that mattered though.

>>97390241
>>97390297
Good post as always HtVAnon, thank you. Lenny wants to turn into a Werewolf essentially? How is that going to pan out?
>>97390968
Cool, good luck. Have you played since the last post about the Ahroun elder missing?

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>>97391037
I haven't played since the end of November because most of our group is dealing with peak shipping season. We just got done with six day work weeks.

the missing Elder happened before we even took this mission, our sept doesn't have a ton of manpower but there are more experienced Garou trying to get leads on it atm while we clear out taint

>>97391025
Gaia was retarded herself or made all the spirits retarded as a joke.

>>97391025
There was no failure. Spirits do what they do because that's what they are. You wouldn't consider a hammer to be a bad hammer just because it can't do precision surgery. Asking a spirit to betray their nature is like asking rain to fall up. Even if that would somehow help the rain worshippers it can't do that, because if it falls up it's not longer rain.

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I wonder, in order to update the Technocracy to the current era, what would have to change? For one I think it wouldn't be proper to call it a Union since its not socialist enough anymore. Maybe the Technocratic Syndicate/Corporation?
Also I assume New World Order would focus more on memetic warfare and weaponize influencers? The Syndicate would be based around stuff like blockchain and be the Convention most likely to defect the Technocracy and join the Traditions due to their new rebel nature and Startup founders (going the Virtual Adepts way?)
I also think maybe Iteration X would be more powerful than when Ascension was first released. Void Engineers would definitely have Elon and SpaceX I guess?
What other changes would you introduce, anon? More cyberpunk stuff?

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Who wants to play?

>>97390829
Its kind of sad. During my childhood we would play smear the queer all the time & its never thought it had anything to do with gay people until I was scolded in highschool for saying it

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>>97390700
Nooooo....

dunno why Bing had such an issue with bald piro. I've done her bald before but today it was dog city.

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>>97390863
boom

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>>97388888
>This was a great thread task BTW, it's blowing up.
It should hardly be surprising that a TT that provides an excuse for skimpy attire would be popular, DK.

Also:
>88888
Nice quints!

Reminder:
AI STANDS FOR ALWAYS INDIAN
WHEN YOU SEE A POSTER TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT AI IS REMEMBER THEY ARE ALWAYS INDIAN.
>>97386036
YOU ARE ESPECIALLY INDIAN.

>>97382201
Actually sir, that's because of Indians. Saar you don't understand i need to hire unlimited H1bs from India to be coders at a pay standard of 50k a year. there's no American who will do this job that i posted internally so i can continue to hire infinity h1bs who will work for half to a 3rd of the expected price and a quarter of the efficiency.

>>97386036
Correct.

>>97389841
lol, rent free

>>97388498
They see him as a traitor because he turned right-wing.

>>97389841
>the only non-luddites on the planet are Indian, supposedly
Improbable claim