There are dozens of youtube channels, websites, forums, threads including on this board, redzits, discords, and whatever your preferred platform for opinions.
Hell, there are probably full books on the subject.

How about you look shit up and put in the bare minimum to inform yourself instead of whining that no one is spoonfeeding you.

>>97836873
I do worldbuilding but for a vidya I'm never finishing. I got this book from a /tg/ thread some years ago so in the interest of encouraging resource sharing I'll post it, it seems to cover how to make the setting less bland but I only skimmed it.
Kobold's Guide to Worldbuilding Volume 1 https://files.catbox.moe/05vd5u.pdf

>>97836873
We have a worldbuilding general newfriend. You should check us out.

>>97838024
It didn't look like OP was asking for "a rulebook to exercise his imagination", it looked like he was asking for "useful, compressive worldbuilding resources".

>>97836893
hello?

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>>97833288
Just like Hasbro wanted.

Reject OP.

>>97818057
...why?

I will wait for your sound, calm, reasonable, and pragmatic answer.

>>97841759
Is low effort mostly. Can be used to fill a void of something you can't find or make, but is just as easy to use it as a way to engage even less with something you should be doing for fun.

>>97841801
That's a fair criticism of AI generated writing for your character or a session.

But grabbing random art to represent a character has a has always been a thing.

And using AI to help develop writing ideas is as good as any other tool. You don't have to use it like a cookie cutter.

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I am working on a new character (elf ranger that grew up alone from extremely young age in the woods so they are somewhat feral akin to a zerker)
and was looking at the Hermit background. Have you ever used the dubious knowledge skill before? It seems like it could be fun but also seems like a straight up negative feat.

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>>97839302
Cool what I thought. I checked all the trait lists I could find and searched repeatedly but I am a fallible human being.

Now I get to ban that eastern European fucker for being a lying bitch.

>>97840432
Sounds like someone was trying to get one over on you.

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>>97841790
Exactly! And I'm trying to be less controlling and trusting.
Like just why? What are you getting from this? It's a game bro. It isn't like it made you that much better.
You were already the combat guy of the group sorta?
Just perplexing

But if anyone wants to be in a PF1e game that meets on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. Central standard Time. There is a slot open.

>>97840299
Terrible on the GM's side of things. I hate this feat and ban it.

>>97837892
I'm too scared of infecting my PC so I stick with Blender.
And I also decided to use Linux instead of W11 so it was a liberation and handicap at the same time so there are compatibility problems I have to work around that just sucks.
>and you capture the look just by following your given references as closely as possible
>'re not making them look bad on purpose or anything but shoot for chunky imperfection
>shoot for chunky imperfection
I think this is what I needed.
I might ask for more advice in a later thread. I don't want to keep spamming these questions in hopes a different anon comes in and posts more advice.

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>>97838553
Yea you just have to like get them to that "slightly moist gym sock" level of stank, it's much harder than that to actually describe but you get what I mean

>>97628410
>>97628410
Wassup GROG, recently got into oldhammer after finding a youtube channel of a guy that does exclusively 2nd edition 40k stuff, and I just had a few questions

(Sorry if this is controversial btw) what is the generally accepted time period editions wise of oldhammer stuff? I was looking a lot into 3rd edition, because im a steel legion player, and 3rd is when they released ASL

Secondly, what are the drawbacks and benefits of the different editions? Ive only ever played 10th edition, so im pretty clueless when it comes to the older stuff

Thanks in advance!

>>97841743
Ah, classic way to keep the thread afloat. I'm a steel legion player too and play exclusively 2nd edition, the best edition. You might like 3rd, 3.5, or 4th better if you enjoy simple and straight forward games instead of large pile of different templates, cards and random tables. 2nd isn't as wild as RT but more compressed and familiar with codexes. 2nd is also lot smaller in scale than what ever came after it. It will thought require a quite a bit of work to get started since you'd need a lot of different cards and templates but everything can be found online.

FFR this is oldhammer and retro thread, so it's alright to talk about 3rd for example. Welcome aboard.

>>97841891
Sorry if I came across as a bumpfag lol, just genuinely curious. Thanks for the info!

>>97841838
I was thinking something like taking some event that happened and altering or adding things as if what was recorded wasn't the full picture. I am probably imagining better execution and respect for the original material than what I conveyed in the other post.

>>97841866
Finally, the Toybox MP we've been waiting for! SRTR, it's time to bust out those sock puppets!

>>97841866
>>97841877
All mp settings are blank canvases that are are only given value by anons.

>>97841879
If a femanon would find me irl and proposed to me, I'd likely agree.

>>97841879
Ngl, the potential for court drama and romance with the different nations and kingdoms and parent backgrounds is pretty insane

>>97841312
>I am not sure getting comfortable being worshiped is a good thing actually.
I disagree. If you’re a god, you need to learn to think of yourself as one. Being in denial of what you are is never healthy.

>Getting used to it is too close to coming to expect it
I feel like you should elaborate on what you mean by expecting it.

>I use Rias' pics because she looks awesome
Good taste.

>Could you elaborate more?
I don’t know that much myself, I’m just remembering a conversation with Ric. That said, it seems I remembered it wrong.
>https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/85918801/#85920135
>Rainbow-Dyed Melody
>Furthermore, those tightly related to that God will quickly realize your nature and treat you accordingly, as their signature powers and abilities are accessible to you.

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>>97841464
>I disagree. If you’re a god, you need to learn to think of yourself as one. Being in denial of what you are is never healthy.

I don't know, see below.

>I feel like you should elaborate on what you mean by expecting it.

I think one of my jumper's strengths is they understand that all these powers and abilities don't make them better than anyone else, in fact the give an opportunity to be a lot worse. I think part of being a god means you believe you are more important, wiser and better than everyone else. That can lead to so real problems. I think in being a jumper it's important to maintain your humanity to stay sane and grounded. Humanity doesn't mean staying human so much as valuing people.

>Good taste.
Thank you. Rias a cute.

>I don’t know that much myself, I’m just remembering a conversation with Ric. That said, it seems I remembered it wrong.

I'll check it out.

>>97841427
Nigga, you don't even have enough charisma to get accepted by a niche fanfic community on the internet. Let anyone actually convince anyone to follow you.

>>97841685
>I think part of being a god means you believe you are more important, wiser and better than everyone else.
Well, let’s take these one at a time.
>Important
Depends on what you mean by important. If you mean you’re more influential than Joe Average, well, that’s kind of a given. If you mean thinking of others as not mattering compared to you, I’ll come to that in a moment.
>Wiser
This one’s kind of a given, really. As I said with Civilization, living for thousands of years naturally means you’ll be wiser than most. Just remember being wiser doesn’t mean you know everything, and that your goal should be to teach and guide others, and you’ll be fine.
>Better
If we were to take better to mean more capable, then it would be obviously true. However, this is clearly another manifestation of important, the viewpoint of seeing others as not mattering, and it’s here that I think we come to the core of it. Does being a god and thinking of yourself as such mean you have to look down on others? I don’t think so.

>Humanity doesn't mean staying human so much as valuing people.
Valuing people and remaining connected to them, yeah.

>>97841415
don't bump your retarded thread nobody cares about. it's sliding for a reason.

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>>97841446
There is something seriously fucking wrong with you dude.

>>97841446
Kill yourself, fishfag.

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So I bought the hardcopy of this to use as a source book because fuck playing 3.5, but also damn this book got me when I was younger.
Has anyone actually run The Mecha Hack or Aether Nexus? If Y, were they functional or even f u n? I'm thinking of ways to get my group who primarily prefer ruleslite games into this besides strapping them to chairs and watching escaflowne until they like it.

This may be an appropriate place to post this. I am foreshadowing a threat from deeper in the dungeon that I'm writing and have found that there doesn't appear to be a B/X statblock for an Aboleth. I checked my AD&D Monster Manual and Fiend Folio and didn't see it there either, but I did find it in my 2e AD&D monster manual.

My question is, how much (if at all) do I need to tweak a statblock from 2e in order to fit B/X, or would I be better off just homebrewing from scrap? I understand that certain elements (like XP) are very different and am prepared to adjust those, I'm just wondering if anyone is familiar with any weird trends (like AD&D2e creatures having lower AC or better attacks on average). Google searches exclusively tried to tell me about 5e statblocks.

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We had our first game of Fitna yesterday. Syrian civil war of 2012. History was altered as the rebels took over Assad in a brutal conflict. It was fun once the players got the hang of it, I was personally acting as an umpire. One thing that I was left wondering about was the card draw you get from playing the Reinforcements event card. If you draw another event card, can you just keep playing those events or do you have to declare all your events at once and then if you draw any extra those can be used later to generate OP or saved for future turns? It seemed really strong and swingy to chain-draw 3+ reinforcements in a turn into 3 more events. Any Middle-East war veterans here to weight in?

>>97834235
As others have said, The Men Who would be Kings is your best option. Sword and the Flame is a very popular boomer era game and is still very popular at conventions.
These are the best two, but for your purpose MWWBK is what you're looking for

>>97834575
>>97839344
>>97840670
For bigger battles of that period, is Black Powder 2e the way to go? I will be honest with you, I'm not the most hardcore wargamer around and my friends are definitely too fresh for granular and complex rulesets. I'm not sure if it matters but currently we have people working on Zulu, Brit and Afghan forces. We have a friend that wants to build a small Prussian force of the Franco-Prussian War but I'm not sure how to include him in the mix - guess we will have to go alt-history at some point.

Between Hail Caesar and Warmaster Ancients, which is the better system for 1vs1 games?

>>97841070
They are roughly the same game with different goals. Warmaster is more of a game, while Hail Ceasar is much more of a method by which to push toy soldiers around.

>>97839100
Runequest rapes D&D in the alley behind a turkish barbershop, and leaves it with no shoes and a milky bootyhole.
Any edition.
Yes, even MRQ1

>>97839030
DnD was doing that in the 70s and early 80s
The fact it's no longer a thing should give you a memo how "fun" it is and how shortliver it is

>>97839030
>IR sensor works in pitch darkness
>passive system so undetectable and works with zero power, zero moving parts and zero maintnence
>analog circuit can use an array to detect position and depth for a firing solution
>can filter targets by IR signature
How the fuck are cavemen getting past this?

>>97839030
We have a worldbuilding general newfriend.

>>97839134
Son?

>>97841896
>Maybe I'll consider running more rocks
>maybe i'l consider running more rituals too while i'm at it
>so much burst mana means i cut down on land
>less land? Gotta have free spells too or cards with low cmc
>hmm i have so much burst mana turn 2 maybe i'll ad naus, i wonder what happens
>w8 this isnt what i actually want whose bright idea was this anyway?!
You are very funny

>>97841916
The question is not whether cedh is solved but variety and you cant deny cedh is more varied than 'ramp then cast haymaker' b2 battlecruiser

>>97841820
Which one? Craterhoof? You got no creatures.
But for the sake of argument let's say, Rise of the dark realms. So what? You will cast it 10 minutes later.
My point is that the argument "makes the game longer" is silly because virtually anything makes the game longer. Guess you won't counter my lethal Chandra's ignition that would end the game, because it would "make the game longer" if you don't have yourself a winning boardstate to follow up
>>97841836
>gavin said so
Then why are you even discussing? It's a given that by argument of authority you are the one in the right. We are arguing whether Gavin's take is sensible or not

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Haven't gotten many reps in with this deck, but I'm steadily tweaking it. I like Haunted One decks for less supported tribes in that they require you to work toward the tribe's synergies rather than jamming in the 20 best lords or whatever.

But the deck as-is needs a lot of tweaks. It's pretty low on instant-speed interaction. The slow bottleneck of getting your commander out and then your background guarantees that you've got two "dead" turns before you can start setting up for undying plays vs. your opponents.

Incidentally the deck also loses a lot of life. As it turns out warriors just have random you lose a life, draw a card effects. And the only real life gain in the deck is also its strongest wincon.

Not quite sure what to put in to make it a bit more consistent, or even what I'd be comfortable cutting since there's a lot of "cute" includes.

>>97841940
>We are arguing whether Gavin's take is sensible or not
It is sensible that your claim of paradox engine and mld being two different things is actually arbitrary and gavin just so happens to not differentiate between them, sorry about that

>>97840633
If you say so dude.

>>97840619
Looks simple-ish enough, actually.
Prana is the stand-in for magical energy of other systems and settings, but more integrated into the world, so you can't just up and banish it from an area without killing everything inside.
Mantras are the verbal, and mudras are the somatic components, and yantras are the local take on magical circles. It's all facets of the same system.

>>97840592
One thing I don't get is the Maya thing. What do you mean by cosmic illusion and illusory realities?
Is it just an illusion over the real world? Or is the real world an illusion too, and you simply swap parts for some of your own making?
I mean, the latter kinda fits the "Matrix-style" description.

Also, magic is mostly subtle and monk-like, I presume?

>>97840195
A lot of the animals are different from earth animals in my setting.
The few that are unchanged are stuff like rodents, insects, and birds. The main exception are a few random domestic animals that live exclusively within settlements.
Everything else follows two main strategies of surviving in the wilds with monsters being a thing.
Being durable enough to fight monsters off
Or being very very good at evading monsters.
Some, like boulder bears, use both strategies depending on the threat level of the monsters in the area.
Like if it's a human sized monster with nothing really special about it, the boulder bear will probably stand their ground and fight to disable the monster enough that it's no longer a serious threat.
But a very dangerous monster the boulder bear will curl up and use it's natural camouflage to look like a big rock in the hopes the monster will pass through without noticing it.

Another example is quite a few snakes have developed octopus like camo that not only changes color but also texture to REALLY blend in.

>>97840882
>One thing I don't get is the Maya thing. What do you mean by cosmic illusion and illusory realities?
>Is it just an illusion over the real world? Or is the real world an illusion too, and you simply swap parts for some of your own making?
>I mean, the latter kinda fits the "Matrix-style" description.
>Also, magic is mostly subtle and monk-like, I presume?

It means that the actual physical world, the one our senses see, is not the real world. We are simply seeing an abstraction, a mistake of the senses. Like being trapped in an illusion or a VR simulation.

Or in more practical terms, the Matrix as a metaphysical framework.

>>97841284
Okay, that covers the Matrix-like nature, and it's pretty cool, but where does the magic of the system fit in exactly?
Like, in Matrix itself, people could pull stuff off by the virtue of, basically, hacking the system. Is that what this world's magic does for people?
Also, *is* there a real world? Like, a physical realm, or is it all illusions or dreams of some godhead?

>>97841380
>Impotent incel internet rage and aspirations of violence
Jesus christ anon, get some therapy. This shit is pathetic.

>>97831907

Aren't people sick of the culture war yet? Isn't it an obvious distraction to stop the hoi polloi from doing things our rulers don't like(starting unions, protesting against wars/Israel, etc)?

Look at all the layoffs happening right now. The average age of a new hire is 42. Even if you're a doctor or plumber who will be fine, think of all your friends and family who are suffering because of layoffs, AI, rising gas prices, etc.

>>97839391
Yes, tabletop gaming was never for retards like you.

>>97840485
>sick and twisted thing that falls in line with the behavior of a demon
That not a nice thing to say about yourself, anon.

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>>97831907
>Anyone got any better than this D&D now vs then comparison pics
Yes, you colossal faggot. I just made one in a few seconds.

>especially for art style?
No. Fuck you and your self imposed victimhood.

>Seeing the new MTG set look so incredibly gay and full of mediocre modern digital fantasy art is quite sad.
Then be sad, you pathetic, weak little victim.

>>97831526
i cant be bothered to learn prior mage systems rn. will give awakening and Asc-1st editions fair shakes latter in the year. still getting my bearings as mage dm and dm in general

>>97831503
Typically I am rolling dice behind a screen for no reason, and then I drop a bunch of monsters I had planned for the session on them no matter what.

>>97831652
Based.

>>97831526
will still be better than mage 5e tho

>>97831503
nick land and his consequences have been a disaster for philsophical youth

You guys claim to exalt in humanity no matter what form it takes, but I firmly reject such a stance. I believe being human is a quality and not just a physical matter of fact. If you are human, and don't act in a way that befits the ideal of humanity as something great, if you debase yourself, lower yourself to the behavior of something foul and less than human, something utterly spitting on and squandering the gift and potential of being born human, I simply cannot consider the loss of something corrupt in such a way to be "hatred of humanity."

>>97841495
Cosmic Horror had one of the best HFY moments ever, in a weird way.
>“Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!”
It's actually kind of a touching moment, which is weird for Lovecraft. I adore the guy's writing, but "emotional" is the last adjective I'd use for most of his stuff.

>>97841558
But enough about eating an entire KFC family bucket on your own without even putting your pants on.
Tell us about mankinds accomplishments.

>>97839217
>global corporatism destroyed mother earth, let's let children die!
Jake Sully was actually insane.

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>>97841740
>erm, this small child had his home destroyed by his family. it's le heckin' VALID to give him another planet (one that's already owned by another species) so he can destroy it too

>>97840844
I cam get you medina for ca. €55, the estates is gonna be harder

Easter Morning, played a game of Tragedy Loopers at my friend's place with the boys. Probably gonna play Clank or The Crew next.

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>>97840099
>You can negotiate, but not freely exchange resources and the spotlight is always on one person that makes the decision,
If that's why Santiago calls to you, you might also enjoy Tower of Babel.

>>97839573
Your TV is way too high.

>>97840554
When you place your block or move the chieftain you care about what is going to happen for at least the next several turns. Small variations to the board are enough your change decision. I am not constantly pulling Pueblo off my shelf but I have not gotten tired of it. The gameplay is still engaging to me after at least 10 plays.
I will add though that I have almost always played with the cult sites and turn order auctions. I prefer them because they force painful choices, but they do also cause the games to be more varied.