Christmas Edition>Previous thread:>>97173638Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team,Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds,Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.>Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V>TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97238566The color differences makes sense. Sounds like you make the lore of your Imperial fleet to be a rag tag band of different planets forces joining up.>low-points I think thats when a BFG game worked the best. I remember that a 1500 game takes too long.
Christmas edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97225164 >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.
>>97241549>not many people are going to buy 2000pts of models upfrontWell no shit. Spearhead is all fine and dandy as an intro army, but the main idea of it should be to get someone to collect a full army.
>>97241636I got it for the unique models that GW isn't going to sell separately for some retarded reason. And I'm just a simp for classic undead.
>>97241675When I look at 4th and see the crazy lack of spells and few, if any, ways to customize your army, it just looks barren and boring.
>>97241898The main idea was to replace warcry with something that would sell more paints.
>>97241675>>97241717Galletian Champions warscroll standardizing combat ranges is a nice change, as well as fixing Look Out Sir. Combat ranges led to bullshit situations where base size did much more to determine the viability of a unit than it should have. Being on a 32mm with 1" combat range should not have been the massive liability that it was. Between that and having some kind of logical timing explicitly spelled out, 4e is better than 3e from a GHB perspective. Unfortunate that they changed every single warscroll to d3 mortals on a 2+.
On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
>>97240723I think Starfinder gives a decent in to the really weird worm-eel-tentacle gas giant aliens. Their tentacles/mouths are capable of manipulating human(oid) weaponry and they can fit in most human(oid) equipment fine.
>>97240164I think a spectrum is appropriate. It'd be odd if all aliens looked like humans but it'd be even stranger if none did.
>>97241544Outright technicolor space babes is a ridicilous concept outside of the softest and pulpiest of scifi tho.
>>97241451>A lot of artists want aliens to be strange for strange-ness's sake, never once considering how these aliens live as both biological animals as well as sentient individuals.Hot take but this is how i feel about birrins. They very clearly have bug limbs and eyestalks just to be weird.
>>97240164I wouldn't say it's an either/or but a both/and. The universe is big enough to contain the entire spectrum, and it's great having different agents in the galaxy with different ceilings of interaction you can have with them. With some aliens you can trade or fuck, with others you can make alliances or go to war, but some you can only observe in wonder...or be observed by.
What's a character you always wanted to play and what's stopping you?
>>97238243Sauce for the pic? Image search is being ass
>>97240453I'm not sure myself, i saved it from a long ago /tg/ thread about the jp localisation of becmi.
>>97238091A drunk black scottish cyclops unironically
>>97238091Undead Pirate. Never a good sea campaign, also I prefer to round out the party.
>>97239363Has anybody bothered to stat out Selkies as a race choice? Or would you just play him as a human because without his cloak he basically is one?
This thread is all about solo games and campaigns. Midnight reading edition.>old thread >>96761554Resources: https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/Thread Questions: How do you try to surprise yourself in solo games?
>>97239625I do sometimes, although I’m horrible at drawing and have a graphomotor dysfunction so… I’m experimenting. Since I was like 8 my dad showed me how to do “automatic drawing,” and I’ve slowly explored that over my life as a creative outlet.Using it in RPGs though, I’ve had to learn to turn it on its head. Since I can’t really draw anything intentionally, what I do instead is sometimes use a drawing in place of a roll on an oracle or an inspiration table. So if there’s and enemy or a place or a concept I don’t know the specifics of yet, sometimes I’ll feel inspired to do an “automatic drawing,” interpret what I see in the chaos, and then make lines heavier and refine it with some extra lines or color until the drawing basically tells me what the enemy or place or thing is. And then I have a super cool unique piece of art to go with that thing.This works for any game for me but I’ve been enjoying doing it with Kal Arath a lot.
>>97237012*takes notes in obsidian on my phone*Heh nothing personnel
>>97239625Another thing I’d suggest is this:Substack com/pub/castlegrief/p/7-hex-codex-pt-1This is a series about designing your own little 7-hex mini settings. It’s fantastic. But being able to draw goes hand in hand with this.Overall, yes, having some sort of artistic ability is a huge boon for RPG/solo RPGing
This is possibly a silly question, but for those soloing games with target numbers for dice rolls (skill checks, etc.) do you have any particular tricks or rules of thumb for generating them or do you just go for your best judgment as though you were normally GMing? I'm on my second session of my first real attempt at a solo game (Worlds without Number using MUNE) and I can't help but feel like I'm just kind of fumbling on unopposed rolls where if I was making these same calls for actual players I'd be way more confident. Everything else feels pretty great so far.
>>97241929Use a standard scale, like d20 roll over mork borg’s scale for example, and then tweak it as things make sense in your situation or worldJust outline like 4 numbers, so a child’s play, an easy, a normal, and a hard. From there, you can start from one of the four generally based on vibes and slide it up or down if you think it’s appropriate. More often than not I don’t slide it.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, /MCYOAG/!!!
Merry Christmas to jitechuds, martial chads, villagecels, and yes, even you mhafiosos
Makes me glad to know that our general being dead on Christmas means we have anons who aren't terminally online.Unlike SOME generals.
>>97241234Fair enough.
>>97241234If you mean cyoag I think that was just two guys. Still even if seeing the thread empty is a bit sad it's not bad knowing there is a good reason for it. I just got done with family gatherings myself.
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>>97240235>Way:Meditation>Species:Human>Weapons:Gauntlets, Fan>Fighting Style:Monkey>Caste:UpperComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241924I don't think he will, he doesn't want us to have fun.>>97241947It's not just more choices, you still only get 1 or 2 per class instead of all 3, you are still giving up powers.
>>97241988>he doesn't want us to have funmany such cases with authors lately
>>97240261>Age:6>Allegiance:Forbidden Cult (Former)>Origin:Peasant>Perks:Genius (Body), Determined, Strange Encounter, Fate Beloved>Cultivation:Realm: True Qi (84 Qi)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97241877This just makes me more depressed.
Thread failed its save overnight huh Edition▶Previous thread:>>97021561▶News:Reminder that next box is Sisters vs Raptors:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zrjpzrms/adepta-sororitas-battle-chaos-space-marines-over-a-long-forgotten-tomb-in-kill-team-shadowhunt/▶Official Key Downloads, FAQs and Erratahttps://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/kill-team/▶Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/AinK04▶Boxed Set Rules Scanshttps://gofile.io/d/NWRByw (deprecated)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97235011You could adapt them to the game mode where you play against an NPC horde since they do move robotically and their personalities are gone and whatnot.
>>97235131Bummer, thanks you though
>>97205958Time to make a new kill team community fren.
>>97218557Unfortunately I don't got much to share at the moment aside from just doing lore and modeling my Zombie missions have the most work, with infection mechanics, breaking the ritual, extraction based missions, or if all goes to hell then it's stand the line or asset denial styled missions with unique scatter terrain like corpse piles, altars, or bodybags. I'm trying to get nice special infected zombies that don't look like nurgle demons, but it's not easy.
>>97234214Well it's as the old saying goes, if my aunt had balls she'd be making up more bullshit at GW.
Christmas edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0AcThe Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
yay it worked!
>>97240633Are the dice worth it?20 buckaroos per set seems steep but then again I'm used to shitty aliexpress dice buckets.
>>97239201I've had a pretty good experience with them, but you will probably have more flash to clean off.
>>97241042No
>>97241042I don't care about money, so they're worth it to me.
What'd you get for Christmas /tg/? Picrel was under my tree :)
>>97240999I also got Mork Borg and this
>>97240999Really nice set of knipex pliers, lots of chocolates, no real game stuff but got the intro battle tech box to play with my nephew. Should be a good time.Best part so far is watching my niece and her new bf be awesome to each other.
Battleforce from my bf and combat patrol from my family :>
>>97241759that cover looks insane
>>97241907Sadly my copy's cover is a shitty print. Inside looks cool tho
Magic should be rare, mysterious, superstitious. It should take time to use and be exhausting to cast When did fantasy magic and wizards turn in Avatar the Last Airbender shooting fire and lightning out their assholes?
>>97240152>>97240168Blame boring grey blob atheists refusing to see the beauty, mystery and wonder (the magic) still in nature for this paradox.
>>97240173>he thinks cancer is beautifulActually fucking kill yourself
>>97237233To be fair, they were dealing with the forces of Sauron. Both Gandalf and Sauron are the same kind of being.
>>97241531yes but gandalf is contractually forced to not be that kind of being and i believe even forget most of the stuff he was and could do before incarnation into mortal flesh.so i don't think he should count for that weird crusade against any form of fantasy that isn't low.
>>97240201NTA, but he didn't say that. He said that what is natural or mundane is already magical. You are made from self-assembling 3d runes with components that phase in and out of reality with clock-like precision. Cancer is when a portion of your flesh fails to let a little elemental death prune its essence, and so grows beyond what is healthy. Gravity and the fabric of space are still essentially magic to modern scientists. I don't know if you're trolling, but if you're not, learn to regulate your emotions. I was amazed at how shrill your response was.
Guys, I want to talk about HELLPIERCERS. I bought this game a bit ago because I thought it looked cool, and I've read it, and I don't know enough people weird enough to play it with me, and I can't stop thinking about it, and I just have to talk about it with someone.>First up: what the fuck is Hellpiercers? And why do you spell it in all-caps? Do you have autism?HELLPIERCERS is a tactical tabletop RPG developed by SandyPug Games alongside a few people who did some dev work on some of the Lancer supplements. It casts the PCs as gnostic demigod heroes and veterans of the War in Heaven, who aided the forces of humanity in regaining their stolen gnosis and slaying the Demiurge, his Archons, and angelic generals. Having conquered Heaven and liberated the mortal plane from the tyranny of false divinity, they now cast their eyes downward, into Hell, where countless human souls remain enslaved by the demon lords below. Hellpiercers, armed with their god-slaying weapons, clad in armor forged from the corpses of angels, lead a war of liberation against the forces of Hell, to free the enslaved souls of every human who has ever lived.I spell it in all-caps because it's title is rendered in all-caps. I'm pretty sure I'm not autistic, but I've never been tested, so who even fucking knows?
>>97241022And file's done. Hope anyone who wanted it got it.
>>97235661More fiddly than I want to deal with but interested in the lock system, how's the operate?
>>97239791You try reporting it? If n then do. If y and its still here then what?>>97241768Shit looks like I missed that. Anyone send it to the NV?
>>97241802Thousand Year Reign Shattering Blade is the most modal (and therefor fiddly) weapon in the game. In practice, most unlockable weapons have less-varied effects. The blade is supposed to be old reliable, so it works with everything.As for the lock system, every option costs resources, which you get from achieving objectives in STRATCOM and TACCOM.
>>97241953Upgrades work on a tech tree, and each one unlocks either new options or whole new subsystems. This is just a few of them. The game starts at a relatively-low rules intensity, and increases rapidly the more shit you unlock. The unlocks are always at the table's discretion, so you never have to get anything new until and unless you're comfortable with what you already have.
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>parents bought me literally none of the minis I wanted for Christmas
>>97241758But I think I may try to sculpt guts spilling from behind a belt buckle. Sounds reasonable?
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>>97241615Lmao, would be funny.
>>97241927Very cool minis, anon - I am hesitant of cutting classic WFB models tho'. I will add some arrows or axes sticking out of their corpses, maybe guts spilling out of their bellies.
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>>97241592If people want to win a game the first time they play it maybe they should try reading the rules themselves.Ive played with enough people to know being reasonable is a pipe dream though lol>merry christmas , heres a game I bought a month ago, idk if you like it and now you can learn the rules and teach it to me todayWhat an awesome ex wife
>>97241637Huh, I remembered the concept as way less interesting. Still not particularly interested in trying it, but for some reason I've not explored Friese designs in all my hobby time. Yes not even powergrid or fresh fish
>>97241592I see. Yeah that should very much be the approach. Sure, you can play it slightly more competitive whilst someone else just pushes levers to see what happens, but 10 minute minmax turns is nothing I want to see in our first game.
>>97241638I've always thought this was only a thing on the fringes of boardgaming; akin to a campfire horror story. But recently, others have begun to purchase more games and shit keeps happening>Anon before we set it up, do you know the rules?>Yeah I do, gotta have to look up some minutae but I'm good>Set it up, after 3 minutes of suttering we find out he doesn't know what half the actions do>End up watching a 30 minute rules videoThe boldness of bringing your game and not even knowing the fucking rules gets me. It shouldn't annoy me as much as it does; if he had known the rules by heart we'd have saved like 10 minutes. But it still feels like disrespecting other peoples time.
>>97241904If only it was the fringes, but I think some of the anons in here do sound like they have good groups and I'm happy for them. I just know that in my current city for instance, there are certain people constantly jumping into 'i want to play d&d' things that pop up on social media who I know are fucking terrible people and its like... you're a single mom to three kids from different dads, you're in a part time remote program at school to get free student loans when you get forgiveness, you're at home all day, learn fucking d&d yourself and stop trying to bum into games for the last 2 yearsI'm so exhausted by life that I just can't be bothered to drive a half hour after work to the board game cafe, hope to god the randos have basic social skills (most dont), realize i have had no fun for those 2 hours, drive a half hour home, go to bed
Previous thread: >>97111514GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: How often do you use an official GURPS setting? Which are your favorites?
>>97240378Vehicle rules in 4e are pretty ass anyway
>>97240790Sorry we can't expand on that we need to republish Basic Set to own the chuds
>>97241343Isn't there some anon that paid the guy to write a pseudo-vehicle 4e for him o 'algo?
>>97241755You'll have to wait until next year for that.
>>97241840There is hope.
