It's such an obvious idea. Where are they?
Marines in particular are the one Imperial organization which is explicitly incompatible with Tau'va. They are a dedicated brainwashed, anti-xeno force, made out of mutilated children kidnapped from their parents and forced to undergo insane and cruel trials resulting in deaths of most of aspirants for no reason at all. This is a senseless cruelty done to achieve something which Tau have no need for anyway. And so Tau wouldn't tolerate. Literally the only more retarded idea than Tau Marines is to have Eldar living under Tau Empire, because Eldar are an ancient post-scarcity society to which Tau cannot offer anything.>>97212122Entire board is our general by right, we are free to do with as we see fit
>>97211911Marines are fucking warp entities. Abominations that their liege's closest associates actively reject as a matter of course. What do you mean "obvious idea?"
>>97212460Eldar aren't post-scarcity anymore, actually.
>>97212479yes they are and nothing changed despite grifters trying to create some other controversy out of nothing
>>97211911because GW realized it would cause to much of an uproar to give other factions space marines beyond the Imperium and Chaos, that being said Tau could probably do their own version of space marines for regular humans
Think edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97195395 >Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, Sharty on the 'log 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.
>>97211107Old ugly models with no centerpieces and no value boxes.
>>97212097Like this
>>97206994The malign portent short stories on the website in the build up to 2e were kino
>>97210647Its really good, i use it to raise my monitor a bit higher. It just works and is sturdy
Happy with how these are turning out. I managed to get the army colors of red, black, and white in the horns which hopefully helps tie it in.
After the the Tau'va manifests in early M42 a narrow slice of the population of T'au plus their populations of non T’au who are faithful to the emerging Tau’va religion. find themselves able to control the elements that the four T’au Castes are named for. This control being identical to the Bending arts of Avatar. T'au castes are locked to only being able to manifest their associated element whilst the non-tau followers of the Tau‘va are able to manifest as any kind of bender though it is slanted toward people who most strongly resonate with a given Element's spiritual affiliation.The number of people in Avatar itself who actually 'have' Bending and what makes a person get it or not is a bit loosie goosey as is so just go along with the number I’m laying out being a clean 1% of the population. Training of the bending arts takes the same martial art & fitness regimes as in Avatar though information sharing and media does canonically make the rarer techniques more widely avalible by the time of Korra so assume bending specializations are as common as they are were in that time.Ethereal are benderless but there is a single reincarnating Tauvatar Ethereal who in on a hotline to Tau'va and able to consult their past lives when and if they’ve accumulated any. If Tauvatar perishes Tau'va will just cook up a new Tauvatar but always starting over from scratch on the reincarnation cycle. Bending is to be treated like a Psyker power in terms of there being forces which dampen or prevent it’s use but the act of doing a Bending art in of itself is to be treated as 'safe' insofar as it‘s having nothing in the way of perils to using it.
>>97205527>firebending>the weakest>in a setting with plasma and lasergunsHell they can already turn any ammo cache into an IED just by doing some hand waves at it, but bending their lasers to hit literally whatever they want wherever it is sounds pretty strong too.
>T'au
>>97207533Useless? What about [Made up laser gobbldegook]? If that was a real thing (And it is not) it would be a super specialized skill with physical and also spiritual/mindset requirements to unlock it. Would a fire bending blast be faster, more accurate, longer ranged, and more impactful than the standard tau pulse rifle? No? Then value of firebenders in an tau army must come by other factors in utility on niche uses. Your example of torching munitions up is just such an example.
>>97204624Spirit bending would be asking for trouble.>>97211512There are top tier fire benders who on firepower and ofc they have the other boons that come with it. Jet propulsion dashes, Combustion bending, deflecting enemy flamethrowers, free traversal of burning locations, lightning redirection, smokebending, it’s a nice little grab bag of uses so Firebending can absolutly be of some value. Otherwise yeah just use a gun since their weapons are already better than average anyway.
>>97207367Really, nigga? He's not even in the general.
What makes a setting don't feel generic a.k.a. not DnD?
>>97191293DnD does still have that. It just isn't treated as an inherent racial trait to be a specific alignment anymore.
>>97191156D&D isn't generic if you're not all "muh low magic, no planes, distant unknowable gods, medieval europe no monks allowed" about it. Kitchen sink 2E/3E era is a genre unto itself, and it only feels generic next to stuff that's directly imitating it.
>>97201773There's actually lobbyists in the port of L'Anguille arguing for a legal distinction to be made between crossbows and firearms, and as other anons have pointed out, the Bretonnian Navy is fully modernized by dint of not technically operating on Bretonnian soil, and as such is exempt to restrictions against "dishonorable" weapons and technologies.
>>97191334I love these two retards.
>>97195217Eh Witcher's setting is fairly bland and underdeveloped in general, white people or no. Like most of the Northern Realms are indistinct from each other.
If you don't have pauldron blades and at least 4 weapons, are you really a fighter?
No, it just means you arnt in a crap manga comic.
>>97212005>>97207762Anime is the worst thing to ever happen to fantasy illustration.
>>97212167Actually it's hollywood mudcore.
>>97212167>>97212324I lean towards "artcore" artist making stuff for video games and the rule of cool being use too much. For every one or two good artstyle towards fantasy art you have three of four bigger shows/games/books/etc of over the top armor, weapons, clothes, and magical items. Though people want to blame anime who often took the items off of them as the cause.
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.
>>97205602Atlanteans & Lemurans are alright. Anything that started on Earth is fine in my books, even magic. But every fucking D-Bee that came from a Rift can fucking die. Get the fuck off my fucking planet you squatter piece of shit, I don't care how you got here or how long you've stayed. Even human D-Bees are suspect. Pleasure bunny females can stay & that is the ONLY EXCEPTION!
>>97188452To continue more Lazlo fluffing:>Bone Brothers (or The Boners)A biker gang that rides around Lazlo and its satellite communities. Too soft to do the Coalition Goosestep, too hard to so the Lazlo trot, the Bone brothers dont quite fit in. They take up riding in packs on whatever assorted vehicles they can manage to afford or repair favoring motorcycles which they see as an extension of personal independance. They keep a loose military structure in terms of hierarchy, although they make a distinction between their rank in the CS and their rank in the gang.They are to be summed up, riotous oafs. Communities are leary when they here the parade of their bikes and most will decide to close shop early as they come to town. On a good day, they will ride up to the local bar, eat and drink anything not nailed down, and then roll away leaving a mess behind. At worst they are a gang pushing a drunken version of Coalition Law and killing anyone protesting. They argue that crimes committed by members are the fault of the individuals and that the Boners are not responsible, others argue that they are not-so-secret insurgents trying to weaken Lazlo for an invasion. The Brothers are given more slack from authorities under the premise that they are just adjusting to this new life, and roving bands of fighting men does suppress random banditry.What they don't know is that both opinions are true. The Boners are in the middle of a power struggle between the current leader, Bobby Robinson, and his honor guard and a fiery new comer, Ronnie Bibbles. Bobby wants the gang to be an outlet for motor heads and treating soldiers who were made to do bad things. Ronnie is a secret CS spy and wants to take over the brotherhood and create a crime cartel focusing on drug trafficking and political terrorism.
>>97206912>boner used to mean 'a mistake'>now it means 'an erection'>in 109 PA...?We had a vampire biker gang in our game.
>>97208087That is very metal. I'm stealing that.
>>97182572I love my Alaskan, racist, cannibal snake wife!
How do we fix Steampunk?
>>97211238ntayrt Read things you like. Make shit you want. Don't worry about it too much.
>>97196423All that neat tech and such? Your players don't have access to it. It's for the obscenely wealthy/aristocratic types. At best you got cobbled together shit that might explode if you look at it weird. That is the PUNK half of steampunk that everyone fucking forgets about.
Thisbthread have discussed many things.I will add one more: politics.Steampunk is about victorian period with high class people. You cannot have that without some interesting pllitics involved. And many modern wroters suck at politics.Besides Game of Thtones i do not remember a recent book that did politics well.Hence we cannot have steampunk, cuase we are too dumb to write politics
>>97210623>calm ye tits, anonHe doesn't want calm tits! He wants to SEETHE!He wants all of reality to conform to his preconceptions, no exceptions. He's a moron.
>>97211238>Did you break out of it and how did you do it?1. think of something fun2. come up with a short story about how fun that thing is. it doesn't have to be a prize winning novel; hell, if you can't come up with something, go on and rip off the plot of some series or movie you think is fun3.profit>>97212079>I will add one more: politicsI think this is the big problem with the steampunk genre in particular, people fin the aesthetics cool and interesting but can't bother with the actual background of the steam age and its consequences, and the reason they can't bother with that is because that requires reading something beyond YA romantasy and that's boring shit for fat boomers
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.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.
>>97206024>How do you track and generally handle regional or world-shaking events without heading down the road of metaplot, i.e. how are you making your campaign world feel alive at the larger scales without removing player agency? Or do you even bother?I like HarnMasters table of world events to seed a random monthly event for fluff/tavern gossip of things happening in the larger realm far away from players
>>97211491There's no "official" osrg discord, idiot, and that one in particular is full of faggots.>>97211494>HarnMasterBased.
>>97211411ugh>protect some design space for Goblinseww
Did anyone run any Xmas related stuff recently?
>>97212347No, but my friend is borrowing my ACKS books during the holidays cause he wanted to check it out while I am out of town during this time off. Might get him to DM a few sessions of ACKS in 26
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(2/3)>>97212208Partner Perks:>Free Skills! (Free)Ability: ChlorophyllMoves: Bullet Seed, Solar Blade, Swords Dance, SynthesisFirst of all, I'm giving him these moves because I'm also evolving him into Leafeon immediately.Bullet Seed is a reliable attack that hits multiple times and at a distance. Solar Blade, though technically never seen in Mystery Dungeon, is a physical version of Solar Beam, which should be enough to destroy anything that gets past our ranged attacks.Swords Dance gives him a killer damage boost that should let him brute force his way through anything, even the things that resist his Grass-type attacks.Synthesis keeps him healthy, especially in harsh sunlight. I'll be relying on him to take hits, so he needs the longevity.>Evolution (-200) (0)Into Leafeon, of course. With my Drought feeding his Chlorophyll, he should be able to run circles around anything and take most threats out before they become a problem.Interestingly, although our team should suffer against opposing weather setters, we actually have a great matchup against them. My Fire-type attacks melt the Ice-types with Snow Warning, and his Grass-type attacks shred the Water-types with Drizzle, and the Rock-types and Ground-types with Sand Stream.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
(3/3)>>97212210Endgame:I wasn't able to take any perks or items for myself, which hopefully doesn't bite me too hard.Map Surveyor is a useful ability, but it's one I have some experience with already from Ixalan, and it's a skill I can learn here. It's even one of the skills in my species' IQ group.Many of the items available seem especially useful, but I have some of my own methods to at least partially recreate their effects, albeit less efficiently and less effectively. I'm not going into dungeons naked, at the very least. Well, figuratively.I'd like to visit Post Town sometime during my time here. I'd like to collect some Devolve Orbs, because Vivi my Eevee is a Pokemon with lots of evolution potential. He was allowed to devolve for this jump courtesy of the Substitute Your Starter option, but I'd like a way to devolve him in future Pokemon jumps so I can explore all of the different options for him, or pick and choose which form is most useful for me at any given moment. It would be so versatile.(On a side note: Vivi was a Flareon before this, and could have been a really sweet Leafeon with sun-boosted Flare Blitz in this jump! Too bad Flare Blitz isn't that good in Mystery Dungeon.)I spent a lot of time procrastinating on the Mystery Dungeon jump because I don't really want to be a Pokemon, but I started metagaming and I think this combo kicks ass. So here I am. We're gonna merk the dungeons all day and night.
>>97211741Charizard, Garchomp, Salamence, Mew, or Slaking with a decent ability from non-Legendaries since I can't think of a jump that lets you be a Legendary. Maybe Machamp if I had to think of a sixth one for a full team's worth of options.
>>97212215cringe
>>97212288no u
>be me>just finished playing in a 1 year campaign>dm tells us he's tired of dming>offer myself >ex-dm looks happy to be a player>im kinda new to dming>bought all the books and a dm screen>starts the first session>made the players use point buy>ex-dm says that is kinda powergaming and kinda boring>ok>unpack my things>put up my dm screen on the table>ex-dm asks me why i am using a screen ( he doesn't)>tells me that's using it kinda seperates the dm and the players. dm are supposed to be a player too technicallyComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97211913It was the standard for D&D forever. That was one of the points of a DM screen in the first place. Other than attack rolls or shit with obvious outcomes (you are going to know if you failed a climbing test immediately) the DM was supposed to handle that stuff. Traps were great because you think you disarmed it but didn't and your cleric just got cut in half. Now everyone is paranoid all the time.
>>97211914My point is he could have been playing shit like prowlers and paragons for 10 years and never seen one.
>>97211316GM screens are used for secret rolls.They also have rules on them.They also hide information that players shouldn't know (trap locations, maps, enemy health totals, etc).5e had notoriously awful DM screen with 3/4 of it being artwork and condition information instead of actually useful general information for on the fly use.Compare that to something like the Genesys screen with a breakdown of different check types, different weapon stats, different scenario tests, average loot tables, and what different die results can be used for what, and 5e is laughably bad.
>>97211999The WHFRP 4th edition one had a list of Reichland appropriate names, which I always liked.
>>97196952This whole time it was Kaya electrocuting Hasan and not the other way around. I feel so dumb for believing the lies
Will our based autist do another end of year stats gathering editionPrevious thread: >>97161490Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqTQs:We play games because it's fun and often argue how X is fun (or not), but rarely think about what exactly is the "fun" part of playing.>What is the most fun to you? Creating or experiencing a story/narrative? Challenge and competition? Novelty? Mastering a system? Immersive theme and artwork? No wrong answers>What boardgame do you think has the most percentage of sold but unplayed copies? Hobby boardgames only, so no risk/monopoly etc.
Carcassonne puts me to sleep.
I finally taught another human being Imperium.It was a smoother teach than I was expecting. He quite liked the system, hope we return to it soon.Also it was my first time playing Mauryans, those expansionist elephants are hilarious. And the progress chit generation was nuts. I had 40 of them at endgame and I know i missed easily a half dozen "play a region, get a progress" trigger from the power card.
>>97211819Guten nacht.
>>97187586>me playing sekigahara
>>97211598what game? even TI4 with all expansions only has 36 factions, all other games have much much less.
Horny bondage edition>Previous>>97192171 >Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/WiCHizn0>Mediafirehttps://mediafire.com/folder/s9esc6u7ke8k5/CofD>Mega Ihttps://mega.nz/folder/ePQ1BKhJ#RCosRCh59Ki2Mpb1M9H3Uw>Mega II (also containing fanmade games)https://mega.nz/folder/ZbQ2zLJA#DOT-3df6rS2lLet4_RmqJQ>WoD5 Megahttps://mega.nz/folder/7rQQ1LbQ#16_AiXVGo0P3_rVOJuoZyAComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97212344Fellow Tzimisce-gangers united against the contentious Tremere>>97212359It depends if you're showing your players something moderately fucked up or if you're showing them gorn or snuff without asking them. I personally wouldn't mind but I know some people are squeamish
>>97211998Lmao no
>>97212399No just like some blair witch like editing where I use traffic patrol footage, then it turns out that suspect was spooky and then cut to like dark forest exploration POVs and some scary sound effects and shit.
>>97212402Nah, that's based effort. I'd say go for it. Just don't be overusing it imo
Are there any splats in wog similar to Bastet/Kitsune in the sense that it can use a ton of powers from other splats by default?
Australia is just about the only landmass on earth that doesn't have an analogue in Warhammer Fantasy. But if it did, what would the faction(s) there look like?
>>97207279Orc-strylia.Basically just a bunch of yobbo Orcs... so regular Orcs, running around getting drunk, fighting cunts and chanting>Orcy, Orcy, Orcy!>Oi, Oi, Oi!
That jutting part is supposed to be the land down under, and it's probably filled with kangaroo beastmen
Wandjina: Chaos stays away from our lands for a reason... are you interested in knowing it?
>>97207279Something like what they did for Africa? Maybe including Tyranids (based on the wildlife)
>>97207279Hobbits.The hot pot is switched out for a barbie.Lots of mounted options, such as drop bears, kangaroos and various crabs.
OOP 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/x06JG55U https://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97210252Torn between YJ (the best and only good faction) and the Japs (look cool as fuck).
>>97211275Only good faction is CA tho
>>97211299>what are the umbras and nexus operatives
>>97211625Why, a brave diplomat and hero of the people :)
>>97211940:)
I've got pulpshit fatigue. Fantasy comic bookiness and pulp are beyond tiresome to me. Ugly as shit art, retarded as shit plots, dumbass pulp tropes like one dude solos an army of 50000 and makes a Marvel quip. Always some dumbfuck scifi or lovecraftian content thrown in too. I want grit, realism, and down to earth plots. I want characters who act like real people, not capeshit actors. I want a plot with substance, not mindless style. I'm sick of it all, everything from Howard to Warhammer to Stench Crusade. Any other fatguys feel the same?>pic related: dog shit pulp warhammer comic from the early 00s
>>97211011>reads shit comics that are vaguely "pulpy">He could be reading great comics that adapt some of the best pulp stories ever> Is mad about itAnon, you are doing this to yourself. I know that retardation is genetic and you can't do anything about it but I will say a prayer for you.
>>97211011Play Bolt Action or Flames of War then.Protip you won’t because you prefer being miserable.
>>97212259Both are based off of pulp understandings of WW2. Okay Chain of Command or Battlegroup instead
>>97211011You want John LeCarre
>>97211011I dunno what you posted looks cool as hell, maybe this is more your speed
