I've been playing games for almost two decades now and people who pump Charisma are consistently the most useless faggots in every party. And this remained true even during the very few times I have attempted it myself.I have no choice but to arrive at the conclusion that Charisma and every one of its iterations across every fucking game ever is just genuinely useless placebo dog shit. And when pressed to justify their investment charismafaggots always ramble about how good it is in real life as if that has any fucking bearing at all on TTRPGs.Besides, it's not that good in real life either. Actors and performers were considered on the same level as prostitutes in status for most of history.
>>97328828And almost every other game ever made.
>>97328876>retard can't identify samefagslol
>>97311311>does your GM use a core mechanic in the game? if not, nobody needs it.mind-blowing analysis
>>97308068>And then we just talked the NPC out of an exciting resolution!There's a very obvious reason why nobody at the table would want this. Therefore Charisma is rightfully shat upon.
>>97308068>I've been playing games for almost two decades now and [[HEADCANON]]
I've spent the last year, studying, and designing a custom Arthurian set, originally intended to be based on Le Morte d'Arthur (like how P3k was based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms). However, as I continued to study, and look into different (and some obscure sources) this turned into a much more wider net. This set, which is no where near finished includes>Welsh Triads and The Magnibong>Pre-Vulgate Arthur traditions>Vulgate/Post Vulgate/Lancelot cycles>some English/Welsh fairy tales>and even a bit of the Victorian Arthurian revival (especially for art). I avoided the Italian and German romances entirely, and tried not to include weird outliners except when needed. Outside of art, nothing is sourced from the 20th century or onward. Also all art is public domain. I'm mainly posting here for feedback. Some will be art recommendations, flavor text (especially sourced) will be always welcomed.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97327429Awesome question. Not exactly an MTG designer or anything, but I imagine two different ways of doing it for Culhwch and Olwen:>Saga1WUBI Tap all creatures; they do not untap during their controller's next untap phase (bridal quest/ 40 tasks).II Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater (representing the boar or giant), or if you want to be more FIRE, all creatures with power 4 or greater.III Search library for a white creature and put into your hand or if you want to be more FIRE, into play. >Culhwch and Olwen as charactersCulhwch of CelyddonLegendary Knight1WRGLifelinkCulhwch of Celyddon has Power and Toughness equal to the number of creatures that you control.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97282821>>97284035Also it would be cool to see the other side of the Fisher King mythology, where the health of the kingdom is direclty linked to the health of the king (ex. something like Lich, but sacrificing lands or putting lands into play when you take damage or gain life, respectively).
>>97330899EDH is based. Commander is the problem.
>>97285584You made me remember this and honestly it's making me not want to go to prerelease for lorwyn.
>>97291963don't like the colors here. boros might not fit the vibe, maybe WB?>>97291990The downsides on this guy might be enough to make paying 2 life to regen steep enough.Whole set needs a bit of a proofread but is otherwise quite nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thoughts on Twilight 2000? I've been wanting to run a gritty setting akin to S.T.A.L.K.E.R (the anomalies and artifacts I can add on my own). I've been considering Delta Green as a system, but T-2000 caught my eye and seems interesting.
>>97325801I play it and its a pretty strait forward system (if you are playing the 4th ed year zero engine). It's pretty easy to convert the game as you need it and if you need extra stuff for making your own home brew go look for the Year Zero open source document and on Drive thru rpg some people have created flow charts for how to do things in T2k
>>97325801>>97330028While I enjoy 2.2, I'm not sure if it is the superior fit—it's a bit too simulationist imo (even if your concept of Stalker is influenced more by tacticool mods like Anomaly/GAMMA than the OG trilogy). Despite how gritty stalker is as a setting, it's really classic adventure stuff when you think about it; just post apocalypse dnd. You have bandits, magic loot (artifacts), cults (monolith), roving monsters (mutants), taverns complete with odd jobs and quests (100 rads), dungeons (labs) made by evil magicians (the group/ccon), and even a fucking adventurer's guild that exists to profit off of it all (free stalkers).I'm not saying to run it in any d&d or d20 system, of course. Just thinking outloud. Stalker is presented to be a complete gritty shit-eating simulator, but the whole premise is very action-adventure-like. Newer t2k editions may represent this better.Looking beyond t2k, I'm curious about what other systems would best represent these competing themes. I've actually been working on my own (barely playable) stalker system from scratch since playing the trilogy, but handling this push and pull between survivalist wank and adventure is an issue for me as well.
>>97328928>we found a 81mm mortar which was then used in an attempt to rescue kidnapped woman and children from a local cult. Unfortunately due to some bad intelligence/recon/spotting on my part then woman and children tasted white phosphorus. It's ok though because we ended up looting a smoothbore 100mm field gun that could also fire APFDS. All in 10/10 would war crime againI think I may look into this game.
>>97325801BRP/Mythras might be better. It in and of itself is DG but better.
>>97325801I am 99% sure there are a tonne of fan systems for running stalker. I've seen content for them on the TTS workshop for years.They've always been in russian but I am sure translations exist. AFAIK they have shared DNA with the CYOA stalker threads that used to exist on /v/ and /vg/. There was a common drawn item set that they all used.Anyway, there's STALKAN.
Do you prefer Pokémon, Yugioh, or Magic the Gathering?
>>97332680Yu-gi-oh has reached a point where, if you can't answer your opponent from the hand on turn 1, before you've even reached any cards, you might just fucking lose. Almost every deck is an elaborate combo streak where you want your opponent to not be able to stop you from completely popping off, and if you don't have an answer ready, you don't just get yourself in a bad position, you get absolutely buried.
>>97326799I liked Magic, pre-Eldrazi anyway. After that a combination of the people I played with wanting to go to tournaments and them looking up "meta decks" online and the Eldrazi set, I just quit Magic all together. I've still got all my cards, but I don't play any more.
>>97333650Yes, and they've also gotten to the point where you're able to kickstart your own engines on turn 0. Yugioh is not a game where lack of interactions is an issue. >If you didn't draw enough handtraps...Then you play going-second staples that have consistently been able to check "unbreakable" boards for years, ranging from DRNM to every Kaiju-like monster in the game (up to Sphere Mode) to removal like Evenly, LStorm/Raigeki/Duster, the entire Forbidden quickplay series of negates, and Superpoly to name a few.>But if you didn't draw the out...Then it sucks if you didn't draw into any engine OR any outs. OTKs have been commonplace in the game for over a decade at this point, that's just how it's played.
>>97326799Overall, Pokémon. But speaking strictly TCG wise it’s Magic forever
>>97334873I hate this fucking arms race of a game, and what power creep has done to it. I wish this game was slower. I wish there was room for interaction that wasn't just a bunch of negates. I wish I didn't have to memorize a bajillion moves strung together like openings and gambits like this was chess to still keep up with the game.I know that's not really an argument, but everything you just said in which that's fine is not actually fine by me. This game has become too different than what it was when I liked it. And that's not even to say we have to go all the way back to Goat format or some shit; I just want the game to not be about everyone doing a fuckton of combos again.
Painful Memories edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-november-10-2025>NewsThe 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97334949Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal." Entropy is the true future that awaits all things.
there is an alternate timeline where Magic remained under the control of Garfield just like Gaben controls SteamIt's definitely better than what's we have to live through
>>97334956Truly an insightful post
>>973349534E was going to launch with a bevy of digital tools, including a character builder and a lot of what would now be recognized as the forerunners to VTTs. That didn't happen because the guy who had been programming all the tools decided to shoot his wife and then himself and the code was too spaghetti for anyone else to get it to production in time.
>>97334962Have you seen the shit Garfield's cooked up since then? I'm honestly not sure that timeline's better.
mondays editionInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:January preorders>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55Uhttps://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97330499I wonder if hector is gonna kill him again
>>97330527Hector killed Patroclus? Based.
>>97330411Nice background.
>>97330527Speaking of, has any CA character canonically died and brought back? While they're officially CA, that is.
Oh no no no
>>97327751Russ was a proponent of Immigration to boost population numbers of Fenririans.
>>97331795That was 10,000 years ago no? Does Fenris have racial enclaves?
IMO swarthy and vaguely ethnic with European looking facial feature humans would have been the best option. Make the Imperium look like Brazil and everyone would be okay with it.
>>97331801possibly, most immigrants stay close to their own and it takes centuries before noticeable homogenization occurs. So if they weren't cleansed outright it's completely possible their are enclaves who live along the equator.
>>97327754>Just paint him whiteWhite people and black people have different featureshave you seen albino black men?I've seen them with blond fucking hair, they aren't white.>>97330811He better be voiced by Greg Eagles
/osrg/ is dead! long live the /osrg/!Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to Pre third edition D&D, derived systems, and compatible content.>Why is the OP different?Due to recent drama, i've revised the OP to make it clesrer. As always, report and hide any Bait/"hijack" posts!>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/80674659/#80722465
>>97334885heres a coastal map for the players(add mountains inland based on vision as needed. in my game theres too much fog for beyond 1 hex)
>>97334908Nice. Keep dumping i am keen.
>>97334930you okay with slop tokens too?
>>97334930so i couldnt find an older file, this DM map has my party movement on it. my bad
>>97334937Nay. Post anything except slop.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere. And as we enter this happiest and newest of years, remember: 2e was never an old-school game, bait is for reporting, and fish is for smoking! Happy new year, grogs!Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:>n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97334630By the time the party sets out, they are fully in the throes of a mushroom trip, and the whole world has become animated like a rankin bass christmas special, with the landscape and monsters resembling sweets and treats. As the face the mountain, it is now a massive mound of whipped cream, dotted with giant green gumdrops, and the scent of filth from the mountain now smells like grandma’s cookies baking. In possession of a bottle of the magic potion coerced from the mayor by the frenchman, they march up the mountain. They traverse a rough terrain of cookie crumbles and brownie boulders, before coming to a slot canyon leading upward. They move up cautiously to the edge of the slot, with the thief using his boots to levitate up to peer over the walls, and as he does so, he espys atop the canyon wall a big wad of vanilla ice-cream wad giant-sized humanoid stuffed into a cake cone, wearing peppermint armor, and wielding a candy cane scythe, and buttermint boulders. He engaged the thief with boulders, missing, and the valiant noble Lord Arik moved up to gain his aggro, succeeding. The party took cover and started climbing the canyon walls up to the giant, while Arik stayed down and forward, as bursting through the ground came seven masses of yogurt-covered pretzels, twisted into the shape of monstrous lobsters.
>>97334653The ice-cream man was in fact an obese stone giant wearing armor made of centipede chittin layered over human hide, and wielding a scythe of bone dripping with blood. The giant threw a couple boulders at Arik as he fought the pretzels and the party climbed up the canyon. Arik pulled his horn of valhalla and summoned five 5HD ghost warriors who wiped out the pretzels. As the party climbed up, the giant positioned himself near the edge, and using his scythe did sweeping 3x1 attacks into their lines, causing great panic. Soon, they felled the giant and his lobstrosities, and move through the canyon.
>>97334704After another hour, they came to the near summit, and faced a 100-foot-tall cliff of peanut brittle. Choosing to swiftly ascend, the thief lashed a rope to the bard, and began levitating alongside as the bard pounded off spikes climbing upward. At the top, there was a plataeu that narrowed into a cave opening that looked like a massive cornucopia overflowing with massive sweets like tirkish delight, gumdrops, jelly babies, flan, etc. The bard and thief decided to ignore them and spent time hammering in a final spike, when, failing surprise, turned around to see the deserts surrounding them. In desperation they both jumped, with the bard’s boots of levitate slowly loweiring them. They waited for the deserts to drop over, but to no avail. A turn later, they are reinforced by their MU, Anti-Pally, and Assasino, arriving via a giant walking christmas tree-walker
>>97333603>97333977kekarooskidesune
>>97334125What do the stars represent? And is there any cool shit in the bottom of that pool?
Pot Luck Edition>2024 PHB Scanhttps://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf>Cropped and rotated, but more artifactyMjAyNCBQSEIsIE5vIFRodW1icywgT0NSZWQsIEFub24ncyBCb29rbWFya3MgdHJhbnNmZXJyZWQgb3Zlci4gCgpodHRwczovL2Vhc3l1cGxvYWQuaW8vd2Fvcm9h>2024 DMGhttps://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf>2024 Monster Manualhttps://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf (D&D beyond version)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Tieflings possess an evolved redundancy of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs). These are molecular chaperones that catch other proteins as they start to unfold from heat and "fold" them back into shape instantly.To fuel this rapid cellular repair, Tieflings have a massive caloric requirement. They don't just "resist" fire; they "burn" through energy to stay alive in it. After walking through a burning building, a Tiefling would be emaciated and ravenously hungry because their body used up weeks of fat reserves to keep their cells from melting.Their horns act as biological heat sinks, similar to the ears of a fennec fox or the plates on a Stegosaurus. They are highly vascularized, filled with a dense network of capillaries.Tiefling lineage is the result of a highly aggressive retrovirus. This virus performs Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT), splicing non-human DNA into the host. The "cloven hooves", "horns" or "tails" aren't magic; they are atavistic traits triggered by the virus rewriting the skeletal blueprint during puberty."Tiefling" isn't a race, but a condition. It’s hereditary because the virus integrates into the germline (eggs and sperm). This explains why Tieflings can be born to human parents—it’s a dormant viral load that finally "expressed" itself.
>>97334737Nah, they're magic.
Is Acquisitions Incorporated still a thing? That seemed to be the horse WotC backed.
>>97334842Last thing on their website is a live event at PAX East 22.
>>97333955I’d rather watch actors in an actual film with costumes, scenery etc. CR is unwatchable trash. I’d rather stare at a wall in silence.
The Green Knight Edition>Resources:WFB: https://pastebin.com/qVGrgwwhWM: https://pastebin.com/EsDAgebaWFRP: https://pastebin.com/inbyBsR6Novels: https://pastebin.com/PFqPDr0H>TOW:https://gofile.io/d/fxFgXShttps://www.warhammer-community.com/downloads/warhammer-the-old-world/>Warhammer Chronicles:https://files (dot) catbox (dot) moe/0xt777 (dot) zip>Time of Legends:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thinking of making some unit fillers for my marienburg empire army - any ideas?
>>97333613You can play SOVL on steam. It’s a free rank flank fantasy war game that’s similar to some edition of warhammer, can’t remember which edition. But you can see what playstyle you like and go from there.
>>97325450Does anyone have official version of this Empire captain? The recast I got is incredibly flat. He looks like a steamtank has driven over him. Looks fine enough from the front but the side profile is just silly.Pic related (WIP)
>>97334934side profile
>>97334945Oops forgot the picture.
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97327051
>>97334994There's literally nothing wrong with being a dictator.
>>97334984Not really, most power don't make you invincible, especially considering that most of them exhaust very quickly the user and most people are on the lower end of power. Someone with the right powers might do it but it mostly depends from other choices like the attitude towards supers or the danger level you select or >>97334994
>>97330940>Plot ProtectionI'm curious if this is good to take or not. Having plot armor from accidental deaths would be great in bleak and dark settings but if feels counterintuitive to not just have it by default, since no one will end their character stories being randomly crushed under a fallen piano.
>>97334994I will get my nation of cocksleeves and butlers and you can't stop me
>>97335024Sylen cyoas assume isekai and sartefaging is not the default
previous: >>97290097Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqThread Question:what is your stonemaier-tier concept for a sure money board game megahit?
>>97333615Is- is that a legible map not printed on recycled newspaper?!? Help me, Splotterman, I'm going insaaaaaane
Ok, this juice is feeling worth the squeeze.Excited to receive Main 1 and the two Aux packs in a couple montchs
You guys paying 75-90 euro for this shit is why this hobby is going to shit. I don't want to hear anything about kickstarters being grifts when you let these super high margin makers absolutely fuck you in the ass for so much more profit. No wonder prices are up 30% or more post covid
>>97334082>You guys paying 75-90 euro for this shit is why this hobby is going to shit.Lol I have a bg sugar daddy. I'm not paying jack.
>>97320047I don’t ever post here, I lurk maybe once a month, but I have gotten some games based on /bgg/ hype before so I figure I’ll add my top 9. No idea if these get any love/hate, but I did see one unbelievably based War Chest enjoyer >>97321354 and one Gaslands Gigachad >>97326101 so that’s a good sign. Also seems like we all agree that Hive fucking slaps, so cheers
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #592"how the fuck is this deck still meta" EditionPrevious thread: >>97236634Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97299566I hate niggers (M∀LICE)
>>97332267Ultra pro pro fit sleeves + ultimate guard katana OR ultimate guard katana + dragon shield outer sleeves.Dragon shield perfect fit sleeves have terrible quality control, you can find evidence everywhere on r_ddit. Ultra pro matte/glossy are the cheapest shit ever, don't buy it either.
>>97333395>dragon shield outer sleeves.Do the DS standard size sleeves also fit as an outer sleeve? Because I know my locals sells them for a discounted price and they don't sell many products for japanese sized cards. They also don't stock Ultra Pro products unless it's official Pokemon accesories.
Where do the nerds play yugioh nowadays? Is master duel still popular or did they run it into the ground?Last I played drytroons was meta on master duel
>>97334141It's split between Master Duel, Edopro, and YGO Omega. Generally people on 4chan will choose Edopro, unless they're specifically in Master Duel threads. YGO Omega's a decent enough option as long as you don't mind the discord integration (it scrapes your account for surface-level stuff like uuid and avatar for their ranked ladder).
RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage RiftsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97224047>you fascist apologist.Not going to work deebee scum, go take your demon worship elsewhere.
>>97266041I love all of it!
>>97325349There are clips from Kev himself saying you can use CoA on the turbine engines of a plane to make the engine seize and rip its propellers off, causing it to crash.Your game master FEARS the stick! He rolls around at night, sweating, knowing all he can think up and his stories can be flawlessly resolved by the power of making something stay stuck to another. Its okay, not everyone can admit they cant handle it as a GM.I was in a splicer campaign with a player who had a gland that secreted adhesive slime. He was erecting barriers, gluing over enemy guns, everything was getting the big stick!
>>97332270They are good guys out of necessity and only in the large scale. The attacked Tolkien (bad), killed Duscon(good), wage a half hearted war against the xkizittit (good), try to purge Minnesota of demons (good), tried to assist NGR against the gargoyle (good). They technically do good in their military campaigns, mostly, but also they like to frame it as altruism when actually most have been entirely defensive and thus a mandatory action. You cant say fighting the xitti and demons was good because it threatened them directly and there was no alternative.Also, it should be noted they cant be nazis because their tanks aren't cool and they got their ass kicked by the Juicers, who could have beaten the entire empire but they didn't feel like it.
>>97327898>>97327903Looks like a squat but still absolutely fabulous. SPIDERTANK NEXT?!?
