How do you actually design sessions? I've been a Bookcel for so long that I forgot what it means to design a 4+ hour session, especially first sessions of a campaign.
>>97336606>If you don't see how that classes with the post I don't see how that "classes" with the post
>>97336156This really depends on what game you're running and what sort of players you have. Even defaulting to 5ednd doesn't give a generically applicable answer. What are you trying to run?
>>97338438>What are you trying to run?Pathfinder 2e, level 1. It's a custom setting based on the 7th century Byzantine Empire, "five minutes" after the Byzantine-Sassanid Wars. The campaign is centered on a city equivalent to Antioch, the "City of Hope" due to its critical position as a trade nexus. The healthy sustainment of trade routes is critical to maintain continuity of civilization. What do you want to know, specifically, about the setting? I can yap all night.But the ultimate point, what the campaign is really meant to be, is around the yearning to recapture something that can no longer exist. Nostos, Pothos. Those feelings of yearning, the core values of stuff like Dark Souls and what people feel when thinking about Rome. The campaign (the plot itself) is about the PCs stopping a Cult that wants to destroy the source of magic in the world because magic is responsible for making the war as catastrophic as it was - and before that, it's been a nonstop threat to the world. People have learned how to live with magic, but that's because the alternative was extinction. Even if people like the cult's goals, the reality is that magic has filled the world for so long and so thoroughly that "removing" magic would destabilize the planet, resulting in even more destruction.That's the thing. The PCs are uncovering this apocalypse cult with genuine motives and desires which simply don't work anymore. Between chariot races, talking to stylites, courtly intrigue and dealing with Turkic-type assholes in the hinterlands, they're working through the yearning of an era that can no longer exist. That you just need to, y'know, keep moving forward. The value of scars, and that.
>>97336156You don't. If the game is good it can be run with no prepping.
>>97339121>Pathfinder 2eDo your players know what they are getting into with a build-autism, overly balanced kind of system? A serious question, as I found it fell apart after a short time when trying to do something that wasn't official Paizo crap.
White Wolf died. But where's the replacements? DnD has hundreds of clones. But where are all the vampire/mage/werewolf clones? Is because DnD is more generic and easier to copy?
>>97339872I can tell you Storyteller is the most popular one from being the WoD/CofD system.
>>97323204A guy in HtR tries that, posting videos online of himself fighting vampires and demonstrating blatantly supernatural abilities. He gets almost immediately disappeared and then further posts are made using his account 'revealing' that it was all a marketing stunt for the new edition of Revenant the Ravishing.
I've been gone a while, what are the main complaints against VtM5?A quick skim of the mechanics and a return to the old clans looks promising
>>97340563Cut a bunch of disciplines. Not even obscure ones, fucking vicissitude got cut.New hunger and blood potency mechanics that try to force "street level" play (and make no fucking sense).Humanity is now Mandatory and the systems surrounding it were made much more annoying.Overall the design is full of the badwrongfun philosophy of a certain old WW writer. It's not quiiiite as bad as W5 in that regard but it's still a game that hates your guts if you want to play anything but a thinblood prole working the nightshift somewhere.
>>97340589Thanks for your well articulated reply. Do Players' or other subsequent books add the missing clans and disciplines back?Personally I much prefer street level games, especially after coming off the back of nWoD and the high silliness it used to bring (out of our playerbase).
There are a lot of examples of knights being implemented into a sci-fi future setting (Warhammer 40k, Battletech, Dune), but are there any examples of medieval societies with modern-esque professional soldiers?
>>97339417>>97339421Why would this be an actual problem though? Just find a reason to change the circumstances. It's not like people need a setting like Battletech or 40k to make sense for them to think the knight aspect of it is cool.
>>97339216The best example would be the Byzantine (or, East Roman) Empire which maintained Roman professionalism, but even they were starting to morph into something resembling a warrior nobility by the late medieval age due to the expenditure needed to be competitive with their feudal counterparts. Heavy infantry fell by the wayside for heavy cavalry, and what is a cataphract but a knight wearing scales?
>>97339484This is a "just turn your brain off dude" argument. You want the aesthetic without the actual thing, when having the actual thing involves story, conflict, and additions to the setting you need to account for.
>>97339651>You want the aesthetic without the actual thingWhat's wrong with that? Most settings do that.
>>97339216>modern-esque professional soldiers?how modern are we talking? modern enough that there's a full time dedicated soldier profession who spend all day every day either preparing for war, fighting the war, or living on a military base/camp doing logistics for war? Or modern as in 2026 where not only are there people whose full-time career earning a paycheck is being a professional soldier, but there's not even an active draft and not just the officers but every single infantry member is a 100% volunteer doing it for the money/benefits/bragging rights? Because that's an EXTREMELY recent development even compared to full time professional soldiers.To get the latter you need to look at some super idealized fantasy elves who treat war like poetry and shit and are borderline post-scarcity. IRL first world nations obviously aren't actually post scarcity but compared to a ditch digger in 200 BC they might as well be, enlisting as a rifleman so you can put a down payment on your big ass Ford F-150 and then be given a housing allowance because you knocked up your girlfriend right out of highschool is just kind of unimaginable to a peasant pikeman drafted and handed cloth armor and a rusty pointy stick
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97337574I think there's a few artists that get them right
>>97330128There's technically both, but the more furry ones are considered vermin races and emerge naturally out of animals with no exposure to the divine or other humanoids. The humanoid ones have varying origins, many 'natural' others less so, but I usually don't think too much about the animal bits as they aren't really meant to directly embody an intelligent form of the animals they emerge from so much as they take a cue from them here or there. The best way I can word it is that the animal bits underline how they are, rather than define it.
>>97340255Post an example, anon.
>>97340412>post porn on a blue boardKacey is a breddy classic furry artist that draws good canines imo, assuming you want stylized Blacksad furries instead of animal people. Then there's eleacat that's the same but with more animal people flavor
>>97335627Dried out.
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What's your favorite BA?I'm looking at what to stick on my Fire Moth. Fire Toads seem good for flipping the Jade bird to Infernos, but I wonder if taking cheaper vanilla options and upping skills wouldn't be better.Can anyone tell me the meaningful diiferences between Longinus Cs and Elementals?Finally, how dezgra is it to take a star with a point of elementals on top?
>>97340397I still don't like any of the CGL Firestarters. They always make the cockpit window too big. It needs to be thin and narrow.
Will this pass for SLDF, or have I somehow painted 2nd Crusis Lancers?>Will need to wait for few days for the weather to clear to gloss vanish this and oil wash
>>97340397I don't mean to be that autist about it, but I would probably have gotten a few salvage boxes if not the set if the sculpts weren't all randomly bigger than their regular counterparts. I can kinda deal with units not being relatively accurate between things like IWM, the old plastics and so on, but I strictly do not want a marauder that is the same tonnage by the same manufacturer, but just bigger for no conceivable reason.I could maybe get the gothic marauder and run it as some goofy ass IIC, but I don't really have an option for any of the others. For a product that didn't really excite me otherwise that's the last straw.
>>97340604>Can anyone tell me the meaningful diiferences between Longinus Cs and Elementals?Longinus C's got SRM-4, no Harjel and has to jetison the SRM pack to jump like other IS BA.
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Looking for brambletrek and the expansionsThanks in advance
>>97340174Thank ya kindly anon.
>>97340387g0f1le /d/NmSU2N
Does anyone have Zombie Road? Deluxe or not
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>>97337137>>97340342>>97340404>>97340451In conclusion, the practice of slavery in a fantasy setting being an indication of "evilness" depends on the circumstances. If this is in a setting where technology (or magic) is available and advanced enough to trivialize manual labor, then any people still practicing slavery are indeed evil, since there is not an economic need to justify their actions (i.e. dark elves). And if a group practices slavery but do not put them to much economic use, instead just using them as cannon fodder for their armies, as mere house servants and/or sexual play things, or just sacrifices to god(s), then they are undoubtedly evil (dark elves again, along with vampire counts as well as your generic barbarians or bandits). But if it's a low magic, low tech setting, and the slaves are being used for the traditional purpose of working the fields, then a race/culture that practices slavery in this setting is not automatically "evil" for doing so, and other aspects about them must be analyzed.
>>97340497>But if it's a low magic, low tech setting, and the slaves are being used for the traditional purpose of working the fields, then a race/culture that practices slavery in this setting is not automatically "evil" for doing soI'd say this is the most key part.In a low fantasy setting, concerns about if an action is objectively Good or Evil don't really matter in the same way, because there's not some god hovering over the party ready to take away their magic if they make an objectively incorrect moral choice. You wouldn't tell the players "slavery isn't evil" for a more mundane setting in the first place. You'd tell them that a particular culture practices slavery and it's seen as socially acceptable within that culture, or that there's a religious schism that disagrees about the morality of it. An action doesn't need to be declared as objectively Evil or not for the players to be able to roleplay.
>>97340584>In a low fantasy setting, concerns about if an action is objectively Good or Evil don't really matter in the same waylow-magic doesn't automatically mean low fantasy. you can have a high fantasy setting where magic is not readily available to the greater populace, or doesn't work through simple spells or incantations, instead requiring elaborate rituals or infusing magical energy into artifacts, and wouldn't be used for something as mundane as trivializing manual labor save for the most advanced and magically capable races. And low-magic doesn't necessarily mean god(s) or some other higher power will not respond to your actions. In LOTR for example, when the Numenorians become corrupted by Sauron and start worshiping Morgoth and making human sacrifices, the Valar are immediately displeased with them and they start to suffer consequences, such as the gradual loss of their extended life spans and increased eye sight. And when they cross the final line and send a fleet to invade the Undying Lands, Eru himself directly intervenes, wiping out the fleet and destroying Numenor for their hubris.
>>97340342It isn't.
>>97340661>low-magic doesn't automatically mean low fantasy.If it makes you feel better, you can substitute 'low fantasy' with 'low-powered low-magic fantasy setting in which there is not contact with gods or god-like entities nor objective cosmic definitions of Good and Evil', but I figured that was a bit of a mouthful, and I assumed the rest of the words in my post would be sufficient clarification about the sort of setting I was referring to.
I need a new GOOD fantasy race to base a campaign region around.
>>97338895I'm pretty sure you kill these things in Serious Sam.
To Isaac Asimov, this was an elf.
>>97335858Going off what >>97336230 suggested, what are more obscure beings, creatures, and entities from myths, legends, and folklore that might work as races besides the more common ones like centaurs, etc.? Some mythologies claim that primordial humans were once more powerful/different, I'd use the idea that some of those primordial humans managed to survive as a distinct race from modern humans, for instance.
>>97337059They look like woodwose.
>>97339573Isn't it only if you pirate the game?>>97336230>>97338895>>97339873I love me some Blemmies.
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>>97339260City Alarm, right
>>97329806Played it today, truly a fantastic game. >>97331990Played it with 3 other people, all playing for the first time and took us 2 hours 30 minutes. I think the teach must have been about 30 extra minutes. Honestly the others were a bit afraid of the game as they heard it was super complex and a bitch to teach but honestly the game is quite simple and straightforward, 2 of the other guys grokked it by midgame and the last one understood Dominance vs Population at the end, and she won anyways lol, thanks to us telling her to migrate a bunch so she could smooch points off from tile scoring on the last round.
>>97337331Yeah, gaslands is fucking great, but now you'll never enjoy another racing board game, because they all seem like fucked up monopoly tier piles of shit compared to gaslands.>>97339478I feel bad for you now too, you'll never enjoy another euro after this. That version looks weird, is it the GMT one?
>>97339478Who printed this version? It's different from the standard gmt one. Does the cover or the cards have updated art?
>>97339379It took me a hot minute to find the rules and there doesn't seem to be a lot to this one. Is there interesting decision making around the movement tiles or something?
If you created an Amazon setting, what would it be like? By Amazon setting, I don't mean a single society among many where women are primarily the fighters, I mean a setting where every society is this way. Some question to start someone off:>What genre would you make your setting be?>Do women tend to be musclegirls, men tend to be twinks, both, or does comparative height and build not change?>Is the magic that men and women are capable of different?>For pursuits that don't involve combat (such as hunting), are ones that are considered masculine and feminine swapped? Which ones?>While women would dominate military matters, what about other goverment matters? Do those end up women dominated?>How does courtship change?>Did you Amazon setting start off as such in-universe or was it some new development that lead to it being that way?
>>97321526No answer because no games. Typical.
>>97321526>>97327225>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qisxToQQSrvKUEIdgzPHysiBEWmysP99k0v14ovBF50/edit?tab=t.0My last game session was quite nice. My futanari heroine has become a father and we played using our GMs personal homebrew system.>>97326386Sure. If you can't censor it to be SFW, create a thread on /h/ and link it here.
>>97278869fpbp
>>97278608 Amazon's in is it okay to pick up a gun at dungeon.
The easiest and most straightforward way is just having a massively shifted sex ratio. If men are less than ten percent of the population most jobs will be done by women as a simple reality.In an ant colony, all the soldier and worker ants are female. If you have anthropomorphic ant-people in your setting they're going to be considered "Amazonian" by regular human standards because males are simply so rare. If you add in the standard fantasy handwavium of letting different races interbreed with each other and half-elves and half-orcs and half-dragons and tieflings and aasimar running around, the anti-people are going to be treated like snu-snu fantasy Amazons by races with a more even sex distribution since they're like 99% female.
Feels like forever since we had one of these.
>>97339455Reminds of a guy I used to know. His girlfriend now wife tried to start an only fans account, that failed. It was some cuckold shit with how she tried to manage it. But she was too dumb and fat to make it work
>>97339980What was supposed to be the filename?
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>>97338960For you.
>>97340269As the other anon said, the issue isn't the airbrush itself but having a place of residence large enough to have room to safely use one.
I like painting epic scale minis and some people in my area do play Legions, how bad of a starter would it be to get something like the Saturnine or Combined arms battlegroup in terms of a beginner army?
>>97338182>its a lot more fluffy that wayNo it isn't, they had 100s of thousands of marines to equip so most have the basic loadout
>>97339841The new apex detachment is also pretty good, lets you take a dreadnaught and a retinue + termies, you just need to take a terminator command squad
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>>97339945Alyona is not showy with swimsuits, ascociating bikinis with determinate American pinup girl calendars. She can swim, but is used to holidays on the French Riviera and not a school pool. She’d find a public beach to ghastly and dirty, and the idea that you pay for an umbrella and blanket would be more proof to her of the inherent cruelty of capitalism(as she hands the owner of the stall money).
>>97339207So 2 of your crests are secondary crests and you're supposed to pick one as your primary?
>>97338390I think we had atleast one other year-skipper.
>>97339908Im sorry anon butMAN HANDS
>>97337926I really wanted to give this a try but holy fuck everything has like 3 conditionals tied to it.
What is the counterculture of 2020s, that could be used as the basis for a contemporary countercultural tabletop game?Take the World of Darkness for example, which was so grounded in the the counterculture of the 90s that it comes across as dated and strange today. How would you update the World of Darkness so that it better represents the counterculture of today?Nightmare Mode: Talk about more than just politics. There's more to rebellion against the status quo and the prevailing social norm than who you vote for.
If you are bombing government buildings, you are counter culture. It doesn't matter who you are, what motives you have, ect ect, as long as you are bombing whoever has the monopoly on force, you are punk.
>>97339404Those "Muslim Scholars" in turn took most of their learning from the Greco-Roman texts found in conquered Christian lands of the well developed Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, and Iberia.
>>97322686Same as always has been to the core of it: being disillusioned, ironic and antisemitic in some form or another.
>>97340556retards who don't know how science works don't seem to get this is just how knowledge is passed down
>>97340470>If you are bombing government buildingsdoesn't narrow it down in good old murrica
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I really hate floodgates. Not even playing against them, but running them. I hate playing cards that don't advance my gamestate or that just end up being useless against some decks.
What are we thinking anons?It feels like a merge between the tamer that set you at 3 and the one that gain one memory
>>97340489Pretty much a perfect cardUseful suspend timing, draws, reduces Digivolution cost to Necro/Dullaha
>>97340489amazing card 10/10 straight up fixes the weird tamer issue the deck hadplay 4 of the tag out rush tamer and 2-3 of this one
>>97340489Make me wonder if the new Arisa would had a similar effect
