Been chilling on Japanese TRPG twitter and they put like 1000% times more effort into the games they run. Like this would be a pic of how polished an average VTT game looks like in Japan.
Japanese TTRPG's are heavily influenced by video games which is why they're poisonous
>>97837909>misunderstanding positioning the second combat startsYou can deal with this part even by just using graph paper
>>97837062>a pic of how polished an average VTT game looks like in Japan.>average On a basketweaving forum someplace in Japan there is an Ameriboo pretending that everyone in America runs games that are Critical Role or with hyper fancy battlemap slop, too.
>>97837088Then play video games. I fail to see the point of trying to play pretend, if you are literally unable to
>>97837062You want to play video games. Go play video games. They are better at being video games.
Pigheaded Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game. 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, and it's very Blanchitsu.>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>third party sources for making trenchers:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97836512They're the result of true demons mating with base animals. So they have some blood of true devils running through them, but are denied actual primacy amongst Hell's upper polities inany real capacity and seethe endlessly that they'll never be able to sit at the fathers thrones due to being mere degenerate bastards.On the upside, they can march on Earth freely without breaking the compact with Heaven due to not being pure demons so they're usually used to lead and coordinate their parents forces in creation.
>>97831699>focus fire isn't a strategyOkay
So why are they releasing plastic kits for the weird offshoot war bands?Is it cause everyone already owns the base models in resin so it would be redundant?
>>97839033>So why are they releasing plastic kits for the weird offshoot war bands?Because they're cool.
>>97839033>Is it cause everyone already owns the base models in resin so it would be redundant?Sort of, although I've heard they're also going to sell the original models in plastic for those interested (not 100% sure on this)>>97837998I love her
Hi,I am only now playing Amnesia: The Bunker and I am amazed just how much in apperance and lore the Monster from game resembles Flesh Eater Courts.The Monster from game is actually a type of ghoul per lore. The Monster was once Augustin Lambert, who had been transformed into a powerful Ghoul like creature due to the drinking water tainted by a otherworldly substance called Vitae ( this reminded me of Kingsblood "wine"). It is a cannibal monstrosity that stalks the tunnels of game, reminded me of how, for example, a Varghulf would act in closed spaces. It makes its home and sleeps in the Chapel, decorated with gruesome half devoured corpses.The design of Monster eyes and those immense fangs that make its toothy maw for some strange reason deeply reminds me of Blisterskin court art. In the Blisterskin court art, the ghoul has a semi dreamy/melancholy eyes filled with pure tragedy. Such a powerful imagery.
>>97839983More Amnesia Ghoul art.
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>>97839976Video games have their own board.
>>97840024It is a post showing how encountering Flesh Eater Courts from Age of Sigmar would look like.
>Utterly countless space marine/imperial guard STL files to the point of overflow >Look around for anything xeno like eldar corsairs or tau>like 10 Is this fanbase too imperial sided? Even 3d printing is marine bloated
>>97836157No one likes you faggot weebs or NPC elves.
>>97836157Depends on what you're looking for. If you just want proxies, there's an abundance of them. If you want reasonable facsimiles however, good luck.
>>97836157https://proxywars.us/These guys have a Not! Eldar range along with other Xenos factions.
>>97836157Orks get a lot of stl files. you are just looking the wrong xeno faction, you grot
>>97836748>>97837886>>97836157oh so basically it's easy to make stls for>black angel space soldiersand>space namBut if you make space elves with pointy helments GW can rape you much easier since it's much more copyrightable.Makes me wonder why they haven't produced more xenos then, on age of sigmar 'they can't steal it if we copyright it' logic, seems like it would be eas.y
I bring with me a story, a story I must re-type because 4chan fucked my post in my dealing with IP range bs! Long ago, 16 years and a couple days ago, an anon made a small game called Wizard Battle and posted it to /tg/. Last year, someone on a discord server I'm in told me of the game and told me to do something with it. As such, I've cleaned the game up a bit in some parts, and filled it up in others. Since the original game was posted originally as a thread, I thought I would bring things around full circle.>but anon the amateur game design thread is 8 pages down the hall!Too bad, I already posted an earlier version of this in a game design thread.The game: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hm4bLdzsX4bzYMxgs-N1fnCNVDUwKKXxwxqD9eddqdkThe original: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2010/8941465/
Based anon, will check it out, have a bump before going to bed
>>97836678This is absolutely fucking based
>>97836678>Soul Magic is fucking cheatyface LMAO
Previous thread: >>97680129GURPS 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.TQ: what's your least favorite disadvantage for a player to take?
>>97839827SJG is still one of the "bigger" gaming companies. Most of that is probably from Munchkin, though.
>>97839833Apparently GURPS specifically was 3% of the market in 1999. No mean feat I guess
>>97835311>parries have no penalty, but if you have brawling or karate you can parry with those skills at -1No, normal weapon parries are at -2. Brawling and Karate parries are at -1.Everything else seems to be correct.Note that these rules seem OK for knives and tonfa, but are dubious for most other weapons. Swords are not balanced for use in one-handed reverse grips (should probably have a skill penalty, or increase ST) while spears shouldn't get reduced reach (one-handed spear use already assumes a large portion of the shaft behind the gripping hand) nor a bonus to deceptive attacks (if anything, a reversed grip with a spear makes your moves more obvious).
>>97839819I hope Mission X comes out at some point.
>>97839838Yeah well GURPS is 100% of the rpgs I like.>>97839917Mission X?
Fractal edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-march-23-2026>NewsThe Pro Tour and Magic Spotlight Series in 2026:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-pro-tour-and-magic-spotlight-series-in-2026Metagame Mentor: The Final Four Standard Regional Championships of Early 2026:https://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-final-four-standard-regional-championships-of-early-2026>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97839912>paying out the ass or proxying the more expensive cardsMe and my roommate are going to pay out the ass for the duals at some point in our lives but the Power Nine is unlikely. Maybe time twister because I love wheels, but the other 8... I've just never gotten my hands on a proxy that I like/feels right and with true vintage power it'd probably fuck over the retarded pet card side of our cube. So it's vintage power legal, but calling it a vintage cube is just me trying to shortcut saying, "everything fucking cool we own is legal." but I mean we've got Sheoldred, the Apocalypse hanging out with Visara, the Dreadful.
>>97839889>vintage cube>i don't want to proxiesbaka
>>97839889Does it poop?
>>97836261Dinna cuped her hands, gently presenting the magic before her"Behold the earth, the roots, the leaves, the rivers, the rain, the wind, the sun, the stars, the breath of everything that is, the life that cleanses evil""uh uh ah UUUUH UUUUH AHHHH OOGA UUUH AH AAAAAH UH UH AAAH AAAAH OOOOH AAAAAH UH uh uh" - replied Zimone
>>97839991hehe
Should casters be able to hold their own in a fight, or should they be balanced around requiring protection from martial classes?
>>97837444>How difficult do you think it isNo idea, never looked into it, because I don't give enough of a fuck. The weird thing is that you do. There isn't anything deeper to it.
>>97837547ThisCasters should have a theme and if being able to defend themselves fits the theme they should be able to do that, and if it doesn't they shouldn'tIf your caster is a magical scholar of some sort like a wizard, then no they shouldn't be able to throw a punch better than any other nerd. That's not part of the theme of being a wizard. Other themes like a sci-fi technomancer, or an alchemist, or a magical deal-maker or summoner, or a seer or oracle, or a magical performer or bard, or a religious scholar or cleric, or a necromancer, also should not being able to defend themselves. That's not part of what their theme is, even if some of these thematic casters get to defend themselves in DnD logically speaking they shouldn't. They might have spells to defend themselves but frankly some of these like the cleric, bard, oracle, or alchemist should not be combat classes with any offensive magic at all.If your caster is some sort of cultivator or magic martial artist or element-bender, if they're some sort of crusading zealot with a god's blessing, if they're some sort of animist or shapeshifter or shaman with a martial bent then yes they should be able to defend themselves.But frankly, TTRPGs need less of a combat focus and more classes which are entirely non-combat.
>>97831141This looks like shit.
>>97831141>Should casters be able to hold their own in a fight, or should they be balanced around requiring protection from martial classes?Casters needing a tank to handle aggro is too video gamey for me. I'd just rather have no full casters and have everyone be some kind of martial.
>>97831141Traditional games?
>GURPS Ultra Tech is apparently bad>People say to not reskin 5e (e.g. Ultramodern 5)>Stars Without Number is just OSR grog slopWhat systems are actually good for running sci fi games then?
>GURPS Ultra Tech is apparently badIs it? I want to put together something like a not-infinity one shot to have high-to-ultra tech firefights against aliens and dastardly intelligence agents. Is the book not good enough?
>>97839940Yeah there really isn't an accepted sci-fi "blueprint" like fantasy, things can go all the way from cyberpunk to space opera.That said, it's Dune. Dune is to sci-fi what Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. It has its fingerprints everywhere but so do others, but they're like the Conans and Elrics and so on.
>>97839803So you agree, there is nothing wrong with it then?
>>97839968Yeah bro, I love wasting my time.
>>97839724Where did you hear that? The only major quirk I can think of is that FTL involves week long jumps of 1-6 parsecs, with no FTL signals. I guess the fuel consumption also restricts the kind of ships you can make.There's a lot of setting specific stuff, but you don't have to use it, and IMTU (In My Traveller Universe) is common enough in the community to suggest that a lot of peopel don't.
China Mieville is an author who designed stories with stat blocks in mind. I’ll post others and you can too.
>>97836943Proofs?
>>97835092>>97835115>>97835162>all influenced by dnd>all authors you should avoid like the plagueWell that settles it, never read anything written by DnDfags.
>>97839618You're the one who should return to faggot containment: >>>/lgbt/
>>97835092>He is also handsomeFuck off, China
>>97839618Don't you know the only purpose the so-called "containment" serves is becoming staging ground for the faggots it is supposed to "contain" to spread like cancer?Next thing, you gonna suggest gatekeeping as something that works
TOOOOOOOT Edition>Previously, in the Mortal Realms>>97828345>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, 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.
>>97839866The issue with making a Nippon is you're not gonna surpass the old l5r clan war range.
>>97839842Nigga what the fuck are you talking about I was playing games on my ping pong table with twigs and shit as scenery. What the fuck is an open war card pack. Im judging based on game rules, book vibe, story and art aesthetics
What are the chances that Zikkit's Tunnelpack never come out as a standalone kit? That, like, Underworlds quietly dies with 5th edition and not all of the teams get reincorporated as units within factions?If I'm not mistaken the Sons of VelJohnson and the Sepulcharl Guard still have never come out standalone, right? Were they ever part of one of those four team sets?It feels so stupid to buy the full Embergard box but I'm paranoid there will be no other way.
>>97839773If they're the only ones left I'd say just get on with them yeah
>>97839734cringe
Zerg or Tyranids, who's cooler?
>>97833075Prometheus story ruined Xenomorphs
>>97828052giving the alien monster swarm girlboss redditor spokeswomen is a death sentence for a faction
>>97827534Nids have legs. Nids are cooler.
>>97839918>Nids have legsSo have various Zergs species.
>>97832936I have to ask, are you stupid?Do you think the people who sought the fantasy license were like, "We're going to be really strict about our duties, NO ONE is to be aware of any other Games Workshop products than the ones we're pursuing. Do not even THINK about them!!"And then just by sheer chance the three Starcraft armies are direct ripoffs of three 40K armies.Your a stupid man!!!
What is the most kino BBEG archetype?
>>97839524its a cia tactic. "appeal to triviality"
>>97837876Personally I like the kind who can't be fucked to deal with anything outside of his lair directly so sends a endless stream of bad guys and monster of the week threats because the throwing masses of evil meat at external problems worked totally fine until the heroes/players got involved. Basically the only way to stop the threat for good is to confront him on his extremely well prepared home turf where he is at his strongest. So the heroes are forced to get stronger and do quests to prepare themselves for what would be certain doom if anyone else even thought about attempting it.It's fun to play, it's fun to run, the stakes are clear and the long term objective is always looming in focus and the source of all the minor problems leading up to the final fight.It can also be scaled to whatever campaign length you have to work with.Basically Saturday cartoon villain plot structure.
>>97839615So Overlords?
>>97837876Perhaps it is my own arrogance, my own bravado, that has brought us here, to this crossroads. The question is... where to go from here? We've spoken of fate, of prophecy. Have I traveled this road too long to turn back? Perhaps I have no choice but to continue on to the end...[He bows his head, his shoulders sagging] So many years I've raged against the living. All those years, and the distortion was in my own soul. No man can see the nature of his flaws with diseased eyes... the contradiction lies within me. I thank you... and I'm sorry. So very, very sorry. Perhaps some souls are born into death... they never knew how to live... Goodbye, traveler. My road ends here... I wish you luck on yours...
>>97837876Guy who has been evil for so long that he forgets why he turned to evil in the first place
Thread died and I recently got to play so I'm making it again.>What are you painting?>What are you looking forward to?>good stories about your huntsThread question: favorite fight? Least favorite fight?
>>97834288Oh excellent. A little sad these threads seem to need life support, hopefully its around for when my 1.6 arrives. I wonder if it's because the initial ask is a bit too much for people
>>97834326The threads go dormant between the bigger news updates. I was surprised we managed to maintain one between Black Friday and early January.
Core is finally on the wayjust starting to get into model painting (have a box of reaper minis and prints to get practice)how much trauma am I in for?
>>97836642The build guides are all on the website and they are pretty shit, not actually showing you where some stuff goes and sometimes just outright wrong. But the minis themselves all have incredible detail and look fantastic painted up. The box comes with a ton of survivor minis to mix and match also.
Ordered 1.6, probably not gonna paint any immediately and try get to playing first. The three vignettes are standalone encounters and not really things that go into the campaign right? Should I try and pick up the Killenium Butcher or the Nukealope or should I not bother with them?
I heard ChatGPT was a decent enough solo DM experience and I decided to try it>generic human fighter whose job was to guard a princess but failed>first session starts alright, fought some water soaked zombies and found the princess>couple of more sessions in there's a global level system which dictates which reality is true and uses human anchors in case it can't stabilize a location>another couple of sessions in I am now arguing logics with ChatGPT because I got some superpower which lets me create point and relationships between them>end up this first arc building a system where synthetical ancors replace human anchors and it took me a while to cover all edge cases>this is at level 4>explicitly say I do not want to deal with this stuff anymore>ChatGPT: "You're totally right!" ;^)>next arc is about a network of reality bending doors in which couriers must transport fragments of reality from door to door to keep the reality in check>the only way I could disrupt this was by PLACING FUCKING STEPPING STONES IN AN IRREGULAR BUT NON-OBVIOUS WAY>my fucking god>write explicity multiple times in the source of the project to not have any other reality bending stuff and all that happened earlier was an exception>ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right!" ;^)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97839428Which is why you need to use tools for automatic summarization and conditional referencing (i.e. lorebooks) so that the context window can remain within the limitations of your current model. It's not something those AI assistants are designed for but roleplay LLM front-ends have been working with for years now.The problem with AI assistants is that their actual prompt includes your entire past conversation in that session (or whatever they can fit), so it's just needless bloat to your context memory compared to going directly to the API with your own tailored rules of what the prompt should look like.
>>97837598>I heard ChatGPT was a decent enoughI heard that you're a sucker.
Amateurs. You have to tell AI to not be sycophantic.Use the following prompts:Do not be sycophantic. Challenge my assumptions, point out errors, and prioritize accuracy over agreement. Be generally supportive and constructive, but do not agree with me automatically. If my ideas have merit, acknowledge that briefly. If there are weaknesses, gently point them out and suggest improvements. Avoid excessive praise or flattery. Maintain a collaborative tone while still ensuring accuracy.”
>>97839601i just use my wife. easier to correct
>>97837598>I heard ChatGPT was a decent enough solo DM experienceYou heard wrong.
