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Enlightenment achieved only through overprinting your value Edition

Here is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.

>Build Divide
>Force of Will
>Final Fantasy TCG
>DBZ CCG
>Wixoss
>Keyforge
>Gundam
>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)
>Digimon
>Flesh and Blood
>Gate Ruler

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What's the word on the Star Wars game, is it cool now to try out casually?
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>>97343260
I'm the anon who was organising it, sorry but I gave up. It's a lot of work to organise and I don't have it in me. I can barely work on my passion project and I only did the progression series thing on a whim. I'm sorry
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>>97344509
I'm not convinced the card game is real I haven't seen it at any of my retailers
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>>97344509
The less League is talked about here, the better.

>>97345394
I regret to inform you it is real and an LGS I go to had an event's finals playing once.
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Lat Am Gundam Card Game Finals just happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN1oirHW5zE

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Emotional support elf edition

Discuss elves.
Post elves.
Love elves.
All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.

Thread question: To what extent do elves share their wisdom and experience with other races to help them emotionally and psychologically?

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>>97344970
Stop posting them, they look like ass. A real 'coldsteel the hedgehog" fucking dipshit.
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>>97341514
Move the grandparents up higher and have the women to the left and right of the dude. Then use dashed lines to represent the non-married couples and solid lies for the married couples
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>>97344970
Well, could you at least stick to the ones where he still looks like an elf and not like a fucking dread lord cosplayer?
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BRIDES OF KHAINE.
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>>97345740
The masks are inferior to Fantasy Battle's Witch Elves.

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Why can't they do a decent Angron model? It's either giant fat stubby-winged ork or massive wings with weirdly-proportioned humanoid attached.
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>>97345511
>huge retard with daddy issues powered up by the elemental embodiment of huge retards looks like a huge retard
I think they're nailing it personally
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Jesus. Has nuhammer really been torturing us for so long that they felt the need to release a new version of a primarch that already had a model?
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>>97345624
Yes. Twice.
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>>97345624
Sort of. One is the 40k plastic model, and the other is the Forgeworld Heresy one. I'd have to check but I'm pretty sure FW has a model for all the primarchs but 40k only has the 4 daemon primarchs, Roboute, and The Lion.
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>>97345511
What did you have in mind? I think the new one looks good. I'd never fucking pay for it though. $200+ is fucking stupid for any model.

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>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 not
TC 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/

They used to be split between the website and the discord, but no more. For posterity's sake, the old mega will still be kept active even if it's unlikely to need updating: https://mega.nz/folder/70QH0BBa#Eg-blxYQKkY_C02wErnFTQ


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>>97343644
Bros I got my ass KICKED
First match was a disaster, god was certainly not on my side. My dice rolls were atrocious.
Second match was a tie tho, it’s just a demo campaign so I have 4 more rounds (we are doing 6 matches) to make up.
Got some pretty okay upgrades as well, along with an extra exploration reroll
>>97343981
Bringing in my other shock trooper
A sniper priest
Heavy mech
And probably more objective bitches (yeoman)
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>>97344100
Not much desu

You have two options with every person mostly
Melee or Range
And very little kitbash potential sadly
Here’s the webpage to see for yourself
https://www.trenchcrusade.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Prussian-Stosstruppen-Warband.pdf
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>>97345438
Not even kidding this was my note for the first round right after BOTH my out of action troops rolled ONE. BOTH OF THEM
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>>97342403
for Naval Raiders if you can find some Warmachine mk4 Crucible Guard they'd work pretty well, Assault Troopers/Stormtroopers are the same size as Man o Wars, ~5mm shorter than Annointed prints. Other options from GW I think could work are Votann Ironkin and Chaos Legionnaires with some arm swapping
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>>97345581
Honestly not a bad idea, thanks anon

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A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.

Exotic Cuisine edition

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Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion
>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1ze

Star Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)
>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaA

Other FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)
>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yN


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>>97345117
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>>97345324
It does look like a up-armored VCX-820
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>>97341812
Does the ffg rpg even get new updates? Feels like I haven´t seen anything new on that front since covid started a few years back.
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>>97345395
Last thing I remember was the release of Gadgets and Gear.
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>>97344190
I feel like with Mando food, you'd see a lot of recipes based on adapting various canned/preserved ingredients that got their start as military rations, in much the way that Spam came to dominate post-WWII Hawaiian cuisine.
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>>97345324
Thanks. I like the look, but it sounds like it isn't a "real" ship - possibly some unique hull. The VCX series sounds like they're from a later period (though they might be based on the ship in the game).

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Grogmas in the hive streets edition

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Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:
https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLn

The Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:
https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bq
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I got my hands on an old chimera recently, so I decided to use one of the two chaos renegade models I found still in a blister pack last year to make a funky looking mounted chaos lord. He's not perfect, I missed a couple mould lines and had to scrape & repair them late in the process and I could probably have painted him better, but I think the end result is pretty cool. I wish I could have given him a chaos backpac too, but seeing as he's going to be used for Fantasy it's probably fine.
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>>97339270
Nice mini. I wish I had the ram head. I've got lion, snake and boar.
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Got a game on Tuesday for some 2e40k action, 1500 points and I'm trialing one of the Dark Eldar 2e fandex lists I've found, this first one is built off and adapts 5e army list, the other two are built off adapting the 3e army list. We'll see how things go with these test games. I'm going to need to come up with 2 scratch built raiders and a ravager in time for it, though, I've got an idea on how to accomplish that, too. So fingers crossed I can get that done! Otherwise I'll just rewrite the test list to something else.

Here's a shot of my Kabal so far, finished the assembly this afternoon, 55 dark eldar warriors, 2 Archons/Dracons, a raider and a kitbashed Talos I built during the 5e codex release and range refresh, the pain engines weren't coming till 2nd release wave so I needed to come up with a solution for the lack of one until then. Tomorrow arvo I'll base and prime them all, except the Talos, he'll just get some painting done on him... 17 years after I built him.
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>>97341788
Post up the army list itself? I'm curious to see what it's like with stats and such, and what you're taking.
Any idea what you're facing?

Thread #007 Countess Edition

Welcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread
>>97258877

Previous Thread
>>97131386

Brief rules
>We have no story teller, we are acephali
>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you
>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight
>all OOC discussion should be spoilered

THREAD QUESTION

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>>97337952
Well, to be fair. If a Tzim punishes murderers, rapists and pimps by brandishing them into a furniture for their sins, is it REALLY that sinful? I mean it partially is, but it DOES make them think of repentance, doesn't it? I guess, that was a backbone of the ancient philosophy of via noctis as well.
>meanwhile I who go to church and pray and do good works get NOTHING
Well, brother, I guess you have to have greater faith in God, instead of mechanically doing stuff I guess.
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>>97344785
>Just don't get too cocky with it.
You don't survive as a Gang nomad without a healthy dose of humility. Even if I never had anything permanent before everything kicked off back in Michigan, I've had my fair share of beatings. And I am more sympathetic to those things.

>Oh, she's actually mostly right this time
The cures of the seers is they're always right. Just that the context rarely lines up.

Good to have friends in many places and strange times.

Now, I think Washington State is next on the list of travel destinations.

>>97337782
Wentiko are built different even among the Loup. I was lucky I was focused on running but two swipes cost me my left side. It's been sealed up, but it ain't coming back unless I trust one of the more... Ritualistic cousins.

I ain't driving right now though, and I kind of got used to it.

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kinda struggling with finding a look for my character, I've never really given thought to describe their appearance and I suck as descriptions.
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I mean I barely know anything about werewolves but "they can rip us to pieces" and "the parts they rip don't grow back" I can get. Just what the fuck is a fae? What other kinds of supernatural shit is there?
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>>97345555
Think about the social standing, clothing they'd like to wear, their colors, the build and height.
You can start with very banal things, for instance, Scarlet:
- takes her nickname from the color of her hair, she is American with Irish ancestry and real name;
- has a history of liking and making heavy metal music, she often wears black;
- has lots of dots in Intimidate and has Staredown as its specialty, her eyes are a rare color;
- she is a Toreador from the Volgirre bloodline, they can fleshcraft, she was always going to look unearthly beautiful with a perfect skin despite her chainsmoking habit, and despite her metalhead origins she had her piercings and tattoos removed before the embrace;
- she has many dots her physical attributes and in Brawl, her body has little fat and she could pass as a kickboxer;
- she is kind of a nouveau riche when you think about it, going from playing in front of a small but dedicated crowd of freaks, to smoking in the face of rich gen Y paypigs

I based her looks on Monica Bellucci and Megan Fox because:
- I like them
- I think they have a mature appeal that matches "what I want from her"
- Fox in particular has a mean stare and scowl
- pronounced cheekbones are recognized as a trait dominant and/or tough people have in either sex, even if they weren't, a softer childish face couldn't fit my idea of her


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The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!

Lilith Hall edition

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>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFs
https://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400

>Overview of the Major Factions
https://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houses
https://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clans
https://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powers


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>>97344673
Hyperspace isn't safe and there are the things in there
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>>97345520
Larry Niven please go, this was the moment when Ringworld jumped the shark and you don't need to jam it into this too.
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>>97345072
>Genetic manipulation is not something that will ever be commercially available.
Yeah nah, they can "Accidentally" make Horses obligate carnivores...
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>>97345034
There's a canon rumor of a subtype of Dark caste called the Genecaste, the logical conclusion of clan genetic science and The Society. Not IS however.
>>97345565
I don't think the clans would ever sell or grant their genetic tech to the IS/Periphery on principal.
I imagine the Sharks would price it so high no one faction could afford it.
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>>97345520
Electromagnetic disruptions fucking with computer systems, Jump Sickness hallucinations and Misjumps causing various equivalents of teleportation accidents should be the limit of what happens with it.
Those are horrifying enough as-is when played straight to increase the innate dangers of space travel. We don't need space whales to turn it into a discount Warp.

First Order of the Stick of the new year is up.
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>>97343711
>MitD
someone must have already figured out what he is by now, right?
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>>97345439
probably, I mean the comic is more than 20 years old, every single monster in the monster manual has been named as a candidate at this point
but nothing definitive enough that there's a single "yes this is it" answer
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>>97345439
variant human
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>>97345439
>>97345612
My guess is that he's not a D&D monster at all, but one of the Greek Gods, who took the form of a D&D monster. He's severely weak from the lack of worship and his mind is clearly rattled, but I think it'll be the big revelation that allows the snarl to be destroyed once and for all.
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>>97345679
>always in darkness
>>97323167
>black evil aura
hmmm

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Fear the Old Blood... Edition
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>>97345529
Brain wormGAWD
>>97345523
>>97345530
>>97345541
Normies destined for brain worm replacement
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Rolled 4 (1d4)

>>97345481
Sign me up.
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>>97345678
I have brain worm envy...
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Rolled 3 (1d4)

>>97345708
If you want it, you must take it
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Rolled 1 (1d4)

>>97345708
you can have mine anon

Pathfinder Card Game 3rd WHEN Edition

>>IF YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH GAME YOU'RE PLAYING<<

Previous Thread: >>97177684

/pfg/ (pathfinder 1e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/RSt0rF0T
/p2g/ (pathfinder 2e) link repository: https://pastebin.com/1zySxwm3
/sfg/ (starfinder) link repository: https://pastebin.com/5yp9s2U3
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>>CHECK THE SHARE THREAD FOR MISSING MATERIALS<<

>tq: How do you read about updates for the game? Do you read the source material or just let some e-celeb yawn on about whatever garbage they want to spin?
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>>97341408
can't the just say "You have such and such starting proficiencies instead of your base class ones. You don't gain class features that increase your proficiency in saves, perception, weapons and armor. Instead you gain these features..." or something?
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>>97337341
>Lost Omens: High Seas -- PIRACY! Tied into the Hellfire Crisis storyline, so likely there will also be full naval combat rules.
Oh my god we're getting more pirate lesbians from the Firebrands.
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>>97344777
To even make it begin to be worthwhile for casters like Oracle, Animist, or others that get either a Legendary Save or Medium Armor scaling, it would have to be like Path to Perfection: a way to choose your own boosts so that you feel like you have stronger opportunity cost. Furthermore, this gets a bit fucky with Cleric and the Doctrines: would you still get Shield Block and Deadly Simplicity on Warpriest, for example?

This all runs on the idea that a generic gish build is even a good idea in the first place. When a core aspect of the gish fantasy is having UNIQUE ways of meshing the distinct system mechanics together so that you actually feel like a full fantasy and not just a tool. Otherwise just play a martial and grab the spellcasting feats if it just about having valuable options to do on your turn.

For example, because Magus and Necromancer are confirmed to be in the same book, I'm hoping (huffing hard on the copium) that there's a distinct Death Knight CA that combines the two. A Magus wouldn't normally have room in their action econ to be commanding thralls nor a Necromancer have the sturdiness or weapon score to be on the frontlines (inb4 magus defenses, it's still better than playtest Necro). Anything that combines the two would have to make up unique synergies that enable their features, like sacrificing thralls to reup Spellstrike as a free action, or letting anyone standing next to a thrall count as flanked for your magical strikes. These can't be generic powers that a universal gish option can allow, it is most reasonable to be a thing that specific classes can engage with.
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>>97342247
Barbarians are really fun to play, although I haven't tried one with the remaster, and grappling as a combat tactic isn't just cool but also useful and goes a long way if properly used in combo with other melees there might be in your party. I'd go for that and
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I second the other Anon suggesting barbarian. It kind of sucks that you'll be playing an unarmed barbarian but not using the dedicated unarmed instinct (Animal Instinct, which is incredible), but it's not the end of the world. Animal instinct gives you access to damage dice up to two sizes larger than your d6 jaws, which is about +2 damage on average, increasing another die size at level 7, but Dragon Instinct's flat elemental rage damage is reliably higher than Animal Instinct's rage damage bonus, so it sorta evens out. The thing that catches my eye about the Dragonblood ancestry is Tenacious Jaws. Barbarians are good grapplers, especially in a free archetype game where they can easily steal fighter feats, and Tenacious Jaws allows you to blast enemies that you have grappled with your breath weapon and force them to take a result one step lower than their roll. Not only is that incredibly heavy metal (pic related), but it's something you can build around.

For ancestry feats, you're pretty much locked into Draconic Aspect at level 1 to get your jaws, then Breath of the Dragon via the Ancestral Paragon general feat at 3, followed by Tenacious Jaws at 5. Because we're building around the breath, you also 100% want Formidable Breath at 9 to increase the damage die size, and I'd round it out with Deadly Aspect at level 13.

Class feat-wise, I feel like the progression for your free archetype is fighter (to immediately grab Combat Grab and Reactive Strike) into Martial Artist (to grab Follow-up Strike). Key barbarian feats are Dragon's Rage Breath (might as well double up on breath weapons) and Thrash (something to do with your third action when you've got somebody grabbed). Not a bad idea to grab Snagging Strike from fighter at some point too.

I figure the basic idea is Strike/Snagging Strike > Combat Grab > Thrash (on hit) or Follow-up Strike (on miss). If they haven't escaped by your next turn, blast them, then Strike them again. Rinse and repeat.

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Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
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>>97332073
I was hoping for more, guys...
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>>97333386
This is the worst of both worlds. This is basically 2016 cats and its only saving grace is that this is not a realistic artstyle.
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What’s the most you can get away with before being accused of being a furry?
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>>97345454
The Ed Greenwood amount. Be so breathtakingly horny that the appearances of furry shit is frankly not the perviest thing about your game.

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Thread Question:
what is your stonemaier-tier concept for a sure money board game megahit?
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>>97344634
fellow chadgrada enjoyer
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>>97344634
I like it but then I'm addicted to that feeling you get in drafting where you're praying to god to wheel that one other thing you want and feel ecstatic when it happens and miserable when it doesn't.
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>>97345441
I don't think his post was implying he's an enjoyer
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>>97345497
oh fuck you're right, didn't see the quotation marks surrounding the word "game"

what's wrong with it?
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>>97345243
The only expansion you'd even want outside the big box is Abbey and Mayor. The rest are either a clusterfuck, or tacked-on and out of place.

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This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.

>DO:
- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs
- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only
- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice
- Help your fellow anons with advice

>TRY TO:
- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers
- Not make a new thread until old one dies
- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers
- Not spoonfeed
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I know fuck all about this, but do people mostly print minis for fun, or do they often come with rules and systems so you can play with them?
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>>97343861
You can print them to paint, for fun or to play any existing mini agnostic system (or not, by proxying)
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>>97340507
Anons I beg of you I'm fucking retarded.
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>>97344152
Hi retarded, I'm Dad.
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>>97340507
I know about as much as you anon, but I think the problem is that their is too much intersection. The helmet is too "inside" the body. Personally, I dont know why your using boolean union, when the combine function does basically the same thing. Pretty sure the only real difference matters is if you plan on hollowing the thing (Which on a model this small(assuming its 28/32mm) you shouldnt plan on doing anyway)
>>97344152
Aint we all?

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>Ok roll a perception check
>*Rolls*
>6
>*DM squints, adjusts glasses, looks puzzled for a moment.*
>okay you think you notice a tiny key sticking out of the bushes nearby that might fit the keyhole to the wizards tower"
Why do DMs do this?
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>>97345091
>I want to research a rare spell gm

>failing doesn't do anything so i guess you pass
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>>97334565
>You can't present a place that likely contains major power and riches without immediate security, ala a locked door. Otherwise it's not believable, and reads like your pandering to the party.

>But you don't want this to become a hump to play, so you set the locked door up, but you anticipate your party will search and find a hidden key nearby, as locked doors are want to have.

>Your party then proceed to all roll a statistically improbably low result, but you don't want to waste your one 4 hour slot a fortnight to watching your table suddenly have to switch their brains on to figure out a simple problem of 'get through the locked door', so you just give it to them, to get them through to the actually fun bit inside.


Easy.
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>>97345207
In the case of mandatory activities, sometimes a check is how long it takes
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even if you play 5E, read either Holmes Basic or B/X. D&D suddenly makes more sense.

>well uh, i try again!
>fail forward!
>take 10/20/whatever.

NONE of these matter. searching takes a turn, you search a 10-foot area, that's it. that's the abstraction. you either find the thing or you don't. but CRUCIALLY it takes a TURN. the game has TURNS the same way combat has rounds.

if you make a dungeon that relies on 'passing a check' to continue, that's just absolutely stupid (looking at you, Hoard of the Dragon Queen).
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>>97345119
would it ruin your campaign for your players to have something nice?


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