Yu-Gi-Oh! General #593"the king of powercreep (3200 ATK + on-summon raigeki + omni-negate/handrip + search AND summon when tributed)" EditionPrevious thread: >>97299566Most 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.
>>97412378Also note that the first part about the colons/semicolons isn't exclusive to summons. That's just how effects are written.If <Condition>(COLON) --> <Cost>(SEMICOLON) ----> <Effect>For example, If <you control no monsters>:--> <You can discard 1 card>;----> <Special Summon this monster (from your hand)><You can discard 1 card>;--> Destroy 1 card on the fieldIf <Your opponent controls more monsters than you do>: Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97412407Anyway, I'll spare you the rest of the walls of text unless you ask more questions. My recommendation to you as a new player though, >Learn how PSCT reads so you can skim the cards. It's a well-versed player's trick to just skim cards for anything that fucks them>Learn how PRIORITY works, THEN TIMING. Don't do it the other way around. >Learn to identify the shared functionality between archetypal cards. Since you got a Phantom Revenge box, I'll use Kewl Tune as an example for the last one; Most of their Main Deck monsters have the shared functionality of using 1 tuner from the hand as material when you synchro summon with their cards, and activating effects when they're sent to the GY as synchro material. It expedites the process of reading all that shit when you mentally format an archetype, so you have a general idea of how they work without having to memorize all the text on their cards.
>>97412282Slapping 40-60 random cards from two different booster sets together isn't going to work, buy a structure/starter/legendary deck instead. DUAD is iirc lunalight and onomat while PHRE is h*ckin'handerinos, kidz bop and that one stun/burn archetype with the weird ships/animals, none of which have synergy with each other.Having said that, i don't think branded is a good starting point for a beginner, since it's (IMO) a pretty boring archetype, at least without the dracotail cards, because you just want to floodgate the opponent with the piss dragon, meaning you won't actually learn anything.The 5D's legendary decks will actually give you pretty much every single relevant staple card, but the decks themselves are beyond awful.Blue-eyes has been powercrept hard, but it also gives you a fair amount of staples, and the deck itself isn't half bad, it's just a little inconsistent without the primite cards (which aren't as expensive as before, but it's still a $100 engine iirc), and being both a starter deck AND a popular archetype means you'll be playing a lot of mirror matches. It IS getting more support in the future however, namely a deep-eyes retrain that searches maiden and summons itself (being level 10 is ass, but you can still use it for juraishin and seal), so it's not a bad investment for a casual player.
>>97412583Branded is an excellent starting point for new players. What kind of cock are you smoking, brother?>without the dracotail cards or the floodgates-You need to keep your dick down and remember that you're suggesting starting points for newbies, not totally-optimized builds for experienced players. They get a feature-rich Branded deck off of a few copies of the Chronicles deck, which also happens to come with a particularly versatile form of removal in the form of The Fallen & The Virtuous.
Any general tips for going second on master duel?
Work in Progress, Panzee Corsairs Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97412714There are some studs on the neck that need to be touched up with some iron, and I would fix the edge highlighting/plaid by edging back in the lines with red
>>97412711i like them and keep up with it, reminds me of chaos snail art from runequest>>97412714my suggestion is she looks great and is done alreadyyou can fine tune her for the next 2 weeks and not be happy so just paint the rim already and give yourself a new challenge
>>97412777Thank you! Ill get on that
One of my boss monsters for the DnD campaign is starting to take shape. Meant to be a severely mutated beholder who is having the eyestalks cut off and implanted in unwilling guards via techno-sorcerous surgery to make a sort of biological central surveillance system.
>>97412825I wish people were more ashamed of posting their gooner models
mondays editionInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:January preorders>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55Uhttps://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97408532Depends on what company you look at. Dashat(Haqq+Yu Jing+mercs) and White Company(PanO+Yu Jing+mercs) are probably the clearest examples of what you described. Starco is mostly Nomads and mercs themed around the cast of the spinoff comic. Ikari is mostly mercs and japanese with smattering of units from most other factions. Druze, themed around Druze, is pretty much the "purest" mercenary force in terms of its unit selection.
>>97409816They both get cool subfactions though, Military Orders in PanO and USAriadna in Ariadna.
>>97410841More like wefuzzers.
>>97411584More like wefurrers.
>>97402829there's preorders for the set...I...I want it...
On a scale of Duel Masters to Magic the Gathering, how dead is Yu-Gi-Oh?
4/10 on the dead scale it's hard to find stores to play in but those stores are usually full of active players all waiting to get pegged by my mermail deck
>>97411689It's still being played pretty actively, but it has a crisis of having difficulty acquiring and retaining new players. The barrier to entry includes getting your head around the complex plays that are prominent in the modern game after all of the power creep, as well as the potentially annoying costs to build decks. I don't think this game will properly die unless it goes through a long streak of competitive metas that are absolute dogshit.
I recently began to purchase cards because I want to pick up a card game besides Pokemon (Magic is too aesthetically directionless now).I have watched a few videos explaining the basic rules and still confused as to why there needs to be five unique ways to summon a monster.
>>97412387Because early on they fucked up when trying to adapt Takahashi's vision for fusion and ritual monsters into an actual game and the meta never recovered from those decisions
>>97412387why is that confusing to you? I also recently started playing and like no shit there's multiple ways over the years to summon monsters, some of which clash with one another. Its for balance and flavor. This is just such a weird thing to type out.
Previous thread: >>97295718GURPS 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: what's the best classic GURPS cover art?
>>97410931>I was initially thinking that there wasn't much point having all your troops packed into one vehicle when you can disperse them among many smaller onesI don't see why that'd be the case. A bunch of smaller vehicles and smaller squad sizes increases the logistical and strategic burden of moving all those guys around and limits their ability to put firepower down range. It's arguably less important when they're overmatching irregular opponents, but in a near peer fight even with force multipliers like integrated loitering munitions, ballistic computers and power armor they're gonna be at a disadvantage in a firefight against a larger unit of infantry.
>>97410931You don't want to go full M44, that's a hell of an egg basket. 6x6, 8x8 and tracked can all carry an autocannon, a decent computer, a gatling laser and a single squad. Just have to balance capability with mass, everything is about mass with spacelift.
>>97410574Guns Stats states that 2025 is TL9, no question mark.Obviously we don't have all the things predicted in Ultra-Tech, since UT was more based on science fiction than actual predictions about the future, and even if they tried to be totally realistic, it's hard to predict the future several decades ahead. Also, we're one year in. We didn't have smartphones, hybrid cars, drones, or 3D printers in 1981.I'm not sure that AI is really the best example of what we don't have either; the best LLMs seem comparable to what I would expect from a GURPS IQ 8 dedicated AI; incapable of replacing a normal human, but better than an animal (sometimes), or genuinely retarded person. I'm not sure what level of compute you need to run one, but the Complexity 5 personal computer in UT doesn't seem far off what is necessary and it seems likely to be possible to do similar stuff with a smaller machine soon. That's kind of roughly the level I would expect to be cutting edge one year into TL 9.
>>97411190>I'm not sure what level of compute you need to run onehttps://rentry.org/recommended-modelstl;dr: A 12-GiB graphics card generally is sufficient.According to Thinking Machines (Pyramid vol. 3 iss. 37, from year 2011):>Complexity 5 = typical 2010 computer; can beat humans at specific games>Complexity 6 = 2010 high-end commercial server; equivalent to a human brain>Complexity 7 = theoretical as of 2010GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics indicates that a 2010 (advanced VLSI) desktop (workstation) computer has Complexity 5 for 500 $, Complexity 6 for 10 k$, or Complexity 7 for 200 k$.According to Ultra-Tech p. 25:>A Complexity 5 computer can run a dedicated (non-learning) AI with IQ 9>A Complexity 6 computer can run a dedicated AI with IQ 11Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Seems like they could do with a High-Tech addon
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>>97412631When I first saw Rotmire creed I thought it was a Sylvaneth warband. I hate everything about nurgle but these guys are aweome,
>>97412631>TQWell, funny enough to counterpoint >>97412687, I didn’t care much for the Sylvaneth aesthetic but I love Allarielle.
>>97412739Very nice if yours
>>97412631>>TQSkaven war wheels are funny.
>>97412631I’m tip toeing between a gargant army and the only thing that will push me into it is if they get a new kit with pretty feet (aka alternative posing for the legs)
Little suprises editionLast time on /bgg/: >>97360696Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqTQ:>What game did you expect to hate, but ended up really liking it?>What game did you expect to love, but endet up hating it?
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I've been conscripted to play SETI.
You guys are wonderful peeps. Your kindness is appreciated and it is this vibe that has kept me sticking around and interested in your tastes, opinions, and hot takes over the years. She passed away tonight.
>>97412484How are you holding up anon?
>>97412484Love you my nigga
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>>97412404Crazynick.Outside of price manipulation, I will defend how fast they ship and shit because they always get shit to me ASAP out of all sellers ive dealt with.
>>97412426Yah that fucker.
>>97412404The blatant market manipulation can be annoying but thank god we aren’t One Piece. Scalpers are launching a counterattack on it currently. They’ve been trying it with Gundam too but set 2 was so bad everyone who went in hard got burned.
>>97412552Gundam is a strange one, with how it's so very archetype-focused already but they're deciding to introduce new archetypes so often. It's clearly working out better for the archetypes that get starter decks vs the ones that don't. But I wouldn't be surprised if certain cards from archetypes introduced in set 2 end up exploding in price once their archetype really clicks.
>>97412716The disparity between archetypes can be a bit frustrating. AEUG being so mediocre deflated a lot of my hype desu. I hope they broaden the effects and card design of the existing colors because if Turn A and Shining Gundam are both still worse than just running Kira package I think I’m out. Not that I’ve really invested much in the game anyway. It’s nice change of pace but I still prefer digi.
>terraformed Mars>thanks to the victory of the Naturalist faction, the solar collectors were arranged in a way that mimics natural sunlight on Earth>because of that, the majority of the southern hemisphere is covered in a hyperseasonal steppe, the Hellas and Argyre seas' moisture being sucked towards the equator in the summer making it worse
>>97412837Sounds like a very boring game to play.
>>97412867settingsfags cant into games
>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>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97411840>that one guy who makes jumps for pokemon fangames>all use the same lazy templated layout just with different perks>sometimes even the perks are copied over>in the notes says the games aren't even goodWhat's the point?>also randomly uses the same template for other jumps
>>97412035Unfortunately my brain seems to be mush lately. It's not a matter of not finding the jump that I want. It's that I am having trouble choosing. Nothing really sounds good right now.>>97412044>>97412095Thank you for the suggestions I shall complete my list then.
>>97411688Sometimes, bad media activates autism better than good media. The gay shit I'm working on but won't talk about unless I get off my ass and actually finish it is no different.
>>97411861He's alright, even if his style of jumpmaking is simplistic>>97411884>>97411970Can't tell if this is serious or ragebait, so I'm going with the latter>>97411982Yet he has managed to grow and evolve as jump creator, it seems responsibility is a skill issue for other JC makers>>97412249I feel the same sentiment can be applied to dirge and blame since they have the same problems
>>97407291The fact the vast majority of the thread is just Gohanposter at this point should be telling of how dead /tg/ Jumpchain is.
Silica Mutus Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97367639I don't think he really came up with them but the idea of a hive city, a self-contained arcology, is discussed at some length by Isaac Asimov in Foundation (Trantor, the capital of the First Galactic Empire, is a full-planet hive). Long story short, Trantor requires constant shipments of food, water, enegy etc to even continue to function (and only has a population of 40 billion, which was an unthinkably large number in the 1940s when Asimov was originally writing it. 40k doesn't really distinguish between hive cities (which may be spires, plates etc depending on their design) and an ecumenopolis (a city which covers an entire planet, like Trantor or Coruscant) but the problems both would face are pretty much identical, and covered by Asimov's assessment that they'd require constant influxes of materiel and constant removal of, or recycling of, waste. So for 40k that becomes corpse starch and slums and forgotten rookeries where law no longer applies. It takes from Dredd (as Dredd takes from Kowloon, Rat's Castle, Jacob's Island and other places real and fictional) and it takes from Foundation and it makes something which is neither one nor the other. A megacity in particular is a real term - for cities of 10 million or more - and 40k draws on that too. From the late 1960s until the 1990s there was a real fear in some political circles that urban areas would become ungovernable (as the rookeries had once been) because of the availability of new weapons, rise of organised crime etc. This in turn informed a lot of media - the Running Man is a late example of it, but Dirty Harry and The Warriors would be examples from the 70s - and you see it all over when you start to recognise it for what it is. That is the reason hive cities in 40k are lawless (and it makes it easier to justify skirmishing) - because of a bogus political theory that informed generations of fiction. Same reason Star Trek's 20thC is so fucked up too.
>>97411212In 40k, the ecumenopolis is usually referred to as a "Solar-type" hive world where the hive has overtaken all natural features of the planet's surface.
Figured the best way to counter nu-lore for the Barghesi is simply making better lore. Updated my Xenos-Minoris Dossiers: Barghesi expansion. Here's the changelog:Inclusion of a story ‘Ink Scarring Iron’ about a magos perhaps a little too obsessed with this new dog-species, to the point of warping Imperial records and the violent repercussions. (page 178)-Two new NPC profiles: -The ‘Lesser Geist’ A small version of the beast, considered a rampant pest amongst Barghesi society (page 181) -The ‘Vulf-Geist’ A violent mutation of its smaller counterpart, as tall as a tank and just as dangerous to Barghesi and Imperial forces (page 182)-New Formation: -Fangcatcher Master Using the Geists as the rodents that they are to cause untold mayhem by unleashing the ravenous beasts amongst the enemy, often as a pre-emptive tactic to distract or soften up a foe. (page 210)Three new Wargear Items: -The Geist Cage Used for transporting the larger, nastier Vulf-Geist (page 76) -The Spine Collar For controlling the ravenous beasts if you’re feeling particularly sadistic (page 76) -The Scab Mask Less about giving the beasts face-armour, more about doping them up into even more berserk monsters than they already are (page 76)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97404202>>97410598Manual for Manlets is 1.2.1, yeah. Eventually there will be an update with the primaris ironkin and the cuck kart, but next focus is updating Fear and Loathing and The Fringe is Yours with the xenos reworks for the upcoming series.
>>97412024Bro, we get it, you lost 8 months of your life on something that got retconned, but now you're starting to sound a little unhinged.
dead before bump limit 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.
>>97406633no but the Mind Goblin does
>>97406633he just looks at you.
>>97406326why tho, it's ez
>>97406326Summon your courage, anon.
>>97406448Sleep tight, Popper.
How would one make an Ilithid Campaign where you play as these squidies
all they do is hide in caves and touch each other on the head with their tentacles. it would get boring.
>>97410994Aggressive hentai campaign where an aboleth sends you on a quest to discover new and interesting ways to rape as many dark elf bitches in the ass as possible. Maybe some derros and deep gnomes too, idk.
>>974109943.5e spelljammer, iirc they're a +8 level adjustment race but you can ignore that if everybody plays one
Its a really shitty thread but I'll admit I've been hankering to play a mindflayer in a dnd campaign. I'm sure there's already any number of homebrewed player race for them as is too. I'd want to play him as a double agent, playing at having broke free of the hive mind, but working towards preserving it and directing dangers away and funneling in easy marks.
>>97412619You're a bitch but you have the same idea I had, rather I want the focus to be on starting as a cave dwelling freak who researches and expands his clutch into a fortified base of mindflayers and brain golems and the end goal is building a nautiloid
>try to play a character who is good at things other than fighitng FOR ONCE>get ganked within a session or two
>>97412390Why should I bother thinking about any character creation decision if every encounter will be identically challenging regardless?What happens when other people in the world encounter monsters?If the players and one or more other adventuring parties of varying levels and character types come upon the same creatures at the same time, what happens?Where are the high level monsters when we're level 1? What are they doing?
>>97412390If we only encounter traps when there's someone in the party specialized in disarming them, why should we have that character in the party?If later in the game we hire someone that can disable traps, do traps start existing? Where did they come from? Who built them?
>>97410194>can't use the things he's good at to avoid getting into fights in the first placeUnironic skill issue.
>>97412776Fights are unavoidable though.
>>97411066>Now where
Ways to troll your players? >PCs visits a noble>They get on pretty well>Noble offers the most socially awkward member of the party a concubine for the night>PC refuses, not wanting to seem MISOGYNISTIC in front of OTHER PEOPLE>Noble says "That's all right, I'll send a boy instead".
>>97412225It's the concubine you refused.
>>97412220how is that a shit taste? my PC would ask for both at the same time
>>97412220Breh, If I was socially awkward, and was offered a concubine, you better believe I'm saying yes to that offer.>>misogynyHuh? Accepting the services of a professional working girl has nothing to do with hating women.
>>97412220Seems pretty sexist of you to assume that said PC wouldn't be into either of them, OP
>>97412220Steal their crispy crunch.
