Shit GM Thread, because while you players are awful, there are some really shit GMs out there too.>GM advertises game as a destroyed world by demons and whatever and people trying to live through or retake the world>sounds good, throw my application in and get in>trying to make a character from a destroyed noble house destroyed from said demons>no info or lore or anything so just make one background that can fit in>ask GM if it's okay and if I can fill it in with finer details>he just says nah you're good>is there a map?>he just gives me some random borders map that looks like it was generated from some website>yeah choose a region where your noble house was from I'm still working on the details>his username is some pretentious TheLoreMaster btw>whatever as long as he can provide a good story as the game goes on>me and other players make our characters>he then tells us to create a shared backstoryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279518unfathomably brown post
Anyone got stories of when they were a shit GM?>Playing call of cthulhu.>Running a pre-written adventure in a hunted house.>One player immediately recognizes it.>Try to deny it and throw in some curveballs from other adventures.>He recognizes those too and immediately knows what to do.>End up ending the game early with some dumb plot thread of there being a haunted video game console and series of haunted books a poltergeist of a child was reenacting.In hindsight, I should of just did the original pre-written adventure instead of trying to make some half-assed Frankenstein thing.
>>97284801For me, I don't have any particular moments but I had a bad habit of envisioning some cool scene and then trying to force the game towards it and panicking if things went off the rails. Lost a few shitty and a few good players doing it, but I figured out what I was doing wrong after the 3rd time around thankfully and now I just feel stupid for not catching myself the first time.
>>97284801should have.
>>97279518Would you say this money was promised to you 3000 years ago?
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Which trove has 4AD stuff?Looking for a starter pack, want to give the game a try. There are so many expansions and supplements out there, it’s a little overwhelming. I also hear there are a bunch of lewd supplement by Erick Bouchard, which all seem to have been scrubbed from the web? And Erick transitioned? Maybe that had something to do with it?There’s also Affairs of the Heart which sounds… titillating.Anyways, looking for stuff. Halp
Requesting Flying Ostriches & Floating Castles
requesting CAIN 1.3 and the 3rd issue of games for freaks
looking for starward:https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/514584/starwardFe-Runners:https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/491318/fe-runnersand various Dusk&DustGames oracles:https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/523263/beyond-the-void-narrative-tables-for-starforgedhttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/523262/faces-in-the-dark-narrative-npcs-for-starforgedhttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/519289/starforged-spaceship-narrative-tables
Humbly requesting Adventurer https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/517191/adventurerThanks!
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.
>>97284550>How is labyrinth lord?Great.
>>97283686>what is the most streamlined way to prepare a hexmap for my group of Pathfinder players to get a few sessions of play out ofAnon gave you a great answer, but as an alternative suggestion, consider not prepping your own map at all and using one of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy maps. They're a little bit harder to read than the colorful Basic-style maps, but the playability is unmatched, and if you want to expand the area of play there are lots more maps ready to hand. You can just plonk your dungeon down in any hex that seems reasonable. Alternatively there are also various remakes of the original Outdoor Survival map that was recommended for use in the original D&D box set from 1974; pic related is one. I hope you enjoy it, Anon!>>97284203Yeah, I'm pretty sure he made them as supplementary material for an ASE game he was running. It looks like all his stuff for it is on the All Dead Generations blog now, together with some of his embarrassing political rambling.>>97284550>How is labyrinth lord?It's B/X, so it's good. Personally I like the way he implemented addon AD&D material (in the Advanced Edition Companion) better than the way Norman did it for OSE, but that's a matter of taste.
>>97283686>>97283851Welcome, friend. You seem to have a good measure of "the spirit of the game" and I'm sure you'll have a great campaign going forward. Others gave you fantastic advice. GFC is an absolute treasure as is Melan (the Beyond Fomalhaut fellow linked above). I'd also recommend Prince of Nothing's Age of Dusk blog, though he primarily does module reviews. His musings are good stuff, though, and his No Artpunk module contest collections are rock solid. I would also urge you to poke around old articles from magazines like Fight On! and Dragon. Lots of stuff to shamelessly steal for your games in there.As someone who converted his group from PF and 5E to AD&D, I feel it's crucial to set the hook early. I don't mean in a storygame way, mind you, but give them something they want to get done. A solid dungeon that they can't reasonably finish in a handful of sessions, but with the promise of more treasure if they push on. Something like that. Obviously you have a better measure of your players than we do, but if you are enjoying the OSR style then you'll have to convince your group, through gameplay, that it should be your primary game after the first few sessions. You could run one of the established classics like Keep on the Borderlands or what have you. Or you could mess around with Appendix A from the DMG and roll your own dungeon. If you go that route, I recommend being a bit malleable with some of the interpretations of the results. It's a great way to start getting a dungeon hammered out, but don't be beholden to what it creates. Use the results for inspiration and guidance, but get creative with it! GFC has a great video regarding traps that shows a great method for making your own.
>>97285258(Cont.)As far as making a setting goes, I recommend not fleshing out everything before you start. Give yourself an aesthetic you're aiming for (mine is "somewhere between Tolkien and Conan by way of Frazetta"), decide what sort of biome you want to start the players in (frozen north, deep woods, coastal region etc.) and hammer out the rough shape. At least one major city if appropriate, maybe some hamlets and villages, key landmarks. Then establish some basic stuff regarding political things like rulership and antagonizing forces. I feel that things move much more smoothly if you just let things develop organically though you may prefer a more rigid method. Beyond that, just go for it! Sit down and start putting stuff to paper. I'm sure you'll have something great shaping up before you know it.Also, I second Wilderlands of High Fantasy. The booklet can be a bit difficult to parse but it's fantastic for stocking hexmaps.>>97284550I really like LL. I would like to pick up a copy but don't really have the need at the moment as I don't play B/X. I may pick up 2E when the physical book releases.
>>97283513If you don't know how to compile c++ code then maybe you shouldn't be in the hobby. Also, hello!
Impromptu Flying Lesson edition>Previous Thread: >>97266080>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>Titanicus Compendiumshttps://gofile.io/d/qdYzem>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)https://pastebin.com/iUqNrrA8Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>local group all complaining about 3.0 terrain rules>they all play shooting focused listsevery time
>>97285399I'd have more respect for all the WAACfags infesting HH if they were at least honest about it. Instead they bitch and whine about the rules being wrong when it doesn't support their "narrative"
So, the most resilient Astartes are Salamanders because of their trait, Iron Hands because of their trait and units, and Death Guard because of their units. Is that right?Every Iron Hand is hard to kill, and their special terminators even more so. But for the Death Guard, it's just a specific unit and their characters, innit? They are great, but I sometimes wonder how it relates back at to the spirit of the fluff and rules we were presented since HH1.The Death Guard is a great legion, to be sure. But they seem better at jogging that at being hardy idk. Like, Phraetus also are EW and Gal Vorbak are 3W but we don't call the Word Bearers a resilience legion
>>97285451The death guard reputation wasn't for being extraordinarily tough in the HH, it was for being enduring, IE, they were the better iron warriors not the better iron hands. Grinding assaults and all that.
>>97285459Hmm. They used to resist Pinning's and Crew Stunned's immobilizing effect before. Unstoppable u.u
I started working on a Science Fantasy TTRPG. It was originally a GURPS setting, but i wanted something more pulpy, less realistic, and it's spun off into its own thing.Here's the latest draft, tell me what you think>https://files.catbox.moe/maxhmu.pdfthe new captcha is fucking gay btw
>>97283398not in the leastit doesnt blow you awaythrow you aroundit cutsstick an arm into the blast zone and you will stay where you are and past that line of deliniation the arm will have been cut to its interity, disintegrated if you will. same with concrete and steele.by the current stats it has less than a 50 percent chance to drop an unarmored human to 0 if they fail the dodge check.it is frankly generous.
>>97283484lmao alright. i did watch a video a couple weeks ago of a shaped charge splitting a tungsten vube into 4.
>>97272708You seem retarded, happy new year
>>97284049happy new year anon you fucking bitchboy
In the middle of session 0! we have a Robotic Esper and a custom species Plantoid Smuggler so far
ITT: confess your /tg/sins and devilish antics>be me, at FLGS>see some grogs playing a historical looks like maybe Bolt Action >approach and ask them where they got their Astra Militarum STL's. >handwave their reply, tell them I've been in "the hobby" for a while, I started two editions ago in 8th so let me know if they need any pointers
>>97284248I pretend to play by vibes but I've memorized the entire book.
>>97283934>try to explain to them when and where developers give contradictory information so they should make their own judgement at a certain point (believe iut or not, BL isn't even the worst out there).what is? World of Darkness is also up there.
I only host public games to poach players for my private games and if you aren't going to make the cut I basically start ignoring you in game.
>>97283507I told people different start times for a game based on their level of flakiness and got them to show up at the same time. I sometimes sneak in Magical Realm shit like the party being hunted by brown Amazons who think they'd father strong daughters. I sometimes run games in secret because I don't want to hurt the feelings of friends whose playstyle I hate or think their personalities would clash with those of my favorite players. I don't consider online games real RPGs. It's like the equivalent of condom sex with a woman you find unattractive. You didn't have sex, you fapped into another person and your subconscious knows it.
Whenever someone here asks for a system recommendation, I always suggest 5e. Especially if it's a modern game. I've also noticed that I'm not the only one who does it.Awesome.
Mages and wizards of /tg/, make your predictions for 2026! What will happen in the RPG-verse? Do it now before it happens!
>>97284319Not in any significant numbers, and definitely not coming from the link you provided.
>>97284724>he thinks calling out kikes in 2025-26 means you're neonaziI didn't know antifa, ngos and propal groups were neonazis bro.
>you can't be angry or even annoyed that reactionary conservatives are going either full neo fascism or full neo nazi>only WE the BASED chuds are allowed to reeeeee at everything that wasnt the norm in my grandpa's small town >also you re trans and a kike or whatever the new flavour of the month is popular in pol these daysyou people as so fucking tiresome besides being complete subhumansbtw i predict that things in the us will be far far worse this year so we will get a lot more reactionaries venting and ranting about conservative bulshit making it the worst year for the board to date.GW will keep shitting out extremely overpriced product people will keep buying it and the crowd here will keep screaming into the voiddnd will do absolutely nothing of note, maybe one irrelevant splat the osr hype will keep dying down the nu tactical combat rpgs that also wanna have some narrative pretensions like 13th age 2e and mcdmrpg will be the new trend and keep getting hyped and pushed while being absolute trash
>>97285061Nigger you have NOTHING to bitch about in this hobby, everyone pays lip service to your mongoloid partisan crap. You're purposely going out of your way to find shit to be mad at, that's what i personally find insufferable about you and your kin. Just fuck off somewhere else where to stroke your feeble ego, this is not the best place for this nonsense.
>>97285209but i do. it's the insufferable hateful cunts like you.i don't give a fuck about lip service. who the fuck cares about the disclaimers on games besides nogames poltards fiending for internet drama either way. I want all you fucks out of the hobby and any social space i frequent and unfortunately your filth is pervasive and everpresent
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>>97284374yeah I thinking exactly this, /m/ looked a lot chiller>>97284334oh cool, so it's mostly building a PC and making a story from the implied lore? instead of say, a few pages of encounters to pick from?
>>97285155Pretty much. There are cyoas that provide encounters for you to imagine your character dealing with or even jave mechanics for determining the outcome based on the options picked prior. The way someone usually goes about playing is picking their options and posting the build, optionally with meta reasoning for their picks and a bit on how they imagine things playing out. Here it's pretty standard to include a somewhat in depth bio.
>>97285155JITE and Martial Path are active here right now, with JITE itself being OC made by thread anons. Fantasy Village is less usual, being a heavily sartre'd (houseruled) nsfw cyoa repurposed into some kind of survival crafting MMORPG isekai.
>>97285155>instead of say, a few pages of encounters to pick from?There are missions sometimes, but they are more like prompts for the imagination rather than something structured and you can just ignore them and do your own thing. Once again, some do have structure, like the aforememtioned Life Chronicles, but most are very open.This general is based much more on the open ones, mechanical ones don't really work with our MO. The current runs here are the ones posted at the start of the thread, they have all the compiled information on other PCs and the stories/content up to now. You can just pick one, make a character, post it, and then start writing for it or discussing it in thread. The other general is about the same, but they don't write stories about the characters and they are all separate, they don't interact. There have been a couple of exceptions but it's not how it's supposed to work and even those were not really the same thing as here.
>>97285457>Fantasy Village is less usual, being a heavily sartre'd (houseruled) nsfw cyoa repurposed into some kind of survival crafting MMORPG isekai.It's also active. And it's not sartre'd that much. The mechanics, as little of them as there are, were not changed much, it's only the setting that has been changed to remove the more degenerate aspects of the original. It's a very freeform cyoa by nature, it's supposed to be like that.
New Year 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.
>>97285275As a bladesinger fan, I agreeHexblade and the consequences of its inclusion has been disastrous for 5e
>>97285275>There is no feature in this game more degenerate than those that let you use mental ability scores in place of physical ability scores for weapon attacks.all the summoning spells that make "spirits" are pretty closewtf is "construct spirit", jesus christgtfo of my game. Let's ruin every bit of flavor and common sense for the sake of making things easier and simpler
>>97285330I like my spirit friends, thank you very much! You can give them whatever flavor you want, give them characteristics and personalities while you're at it.
>>97285440as a moth photographer, I love this
>>97285330That isn't degenerate. The flavor is intentionally vague as to whether you're summoning an actual fiend/fey/whatever or creating a simulacrum of one, so they tacked "spirit" on there--but that's a question of word choice, nothing more. It doesn't affect play patterns or encourage outdoing the dedicated "swings a sword" character while dumping the dedicated "swing a sword" stats.
What's so bad about murderhobo games?
>>97273892Who are you quoting?
>>97261360It's funny when fags pretend they're not angry
>>97277910What are you refuting?
>>97261303>Combats take a long time and most people consider 4 hours a long game in the smartphone era>Party gets unbalanced when you have a couple grizzled neckbeards with highly-optimized characters and then more casual people playing something that sounded fun to them>Weird creative interpretations of spells like summoning monsters into the air above the enemies(hint: have an evil NPC wizard do this to the playoids and watch them backtrack)>Game gets bogged down by weird petty shit(wanting to strip all the dungeon fixtures and weapons from dead enemies to sell in town) >GM is reduced to a weird referee controlling hordes of monsters and not actually telling any stories or roleplaying fun NPCs. >Vidya does a good job if you just want to kill monsters in tactical battles
>>97285439>>Combats take a long time and most people consider 4 hours a long game in the smartphone era4 hours is a long game in any era when all participants are both A: EmployedB: Have a social life outside of tabletop
>no display names>no player cards >large groupHow do I keep track of the characters? It’s such a weird thing to ignore. Just throw a name and picture onto the screen like every other Channel does
>>97281598Maybe you think she's doing something hot BECAUSE that you-know-who is on itMaybe it's your kink showing
>>97284694Laura's kid was to young to be vaxxed, btw.The show was fine with them distanced.Imagine bunching back together as soon as it was no longer mandated, just to give the impression that it is a real game sitting around a table. Horrible people. >>97281480 related(?)
>>97284748(or ANYTHING really) >>97281598 Try again. >DM Matt's thought bubble: I totally accept that roll was a 1 and not a usual nat20, Liam. What high number are you going to claim for that re-roll?
>makes Laura's PC be his twin sister, then proceeds to imply an incestuous relationship or make otherwise creepy comments. i.e. "Let's pretend we are married" "Remember when we used to take baths together?">constantly needs to fondle her at the table>tries to romance her PC in C2 and has to be stopped by her husband (picrel), his PC later claiming she is but his "best friend">directs that he be next to her in nearly every live show or panel>claims she's only like a sister to himIf that is true, that's creepy. If that's not true, that's creepy.Verdict: Creepy fucker
When will liamposting cease?
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Starter Dungeonshttps://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/86342023/#q86358321PREVIOUS THREAD>>97226728
>>97281665You're rong, kill yourself
>>972843692e absolutely can be do want to look more like?
>>97279450is the air unmoving or seeping out?
>>97284450You do know that everyone's aware that only trolls say storyshit/storygames/storyfaggotry, right?It's one of the most obvious and immediate tells.
>>97285229You're aware that only storyfaggots get butthurt when they are called out for what they are, right, mongoloid?
A thread for talking about players doing dumb shit and acting like retards.>Be me>Running short campaigns for new groups at the LGS>Players are all tasked with defending some random hamlet in a backwater province from bandits that are planning to sack it and haul everyone off into slavery>First group is (rightly) terrified of a fair fight >Lures the bandits into an ambush by getting help from a neighboring village>raid their camp after they retreat and destroy the group>Second group tries brute force>Roll up on the bandit camp directly and alone>Talk their way into meeting with the leader when they rushed him>Catch him offguard>Are also playing optimized characters >Slaughter him and his guards and convince half of the bandit group to work for them, rest scatter>The third groupComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97276224>>97276323>>97276439You're both shit GMs kek.
>>97284553When you take every opportunity to shit on other people it just shows that you're a loser trying to feel better about himself.
>>97284622I'm not shitting on you my guy, I'm explaining why nothing you've tried works and you can't hold your players attention.
>>97284515Do you have any stories about things that did happen then, anon?
>>97284553kill yourself nigger. dmed plenty of game before and after that and didnt have that issue try again
Is Age of Sigmar good yet?
AoS 1st and 2nd Ed are kino fun
>>97273910What's WAP?
>>97283757wet ass pussy
>>97263016What Vathay even has beyond lmao dragons and hot air lanterns?
Today I will remind them
the paid dm defenders have always said they help people with no friends, but the last few months they are being promoted as>fun for friends>give your dm a break>let your group try a new systemim talking ginny d, reddit, forum posts, irl in-store. in all seriousness will people fall for this instead of having one of their friends dm
>>97278501>tool works perfectly fine for decades>some suit figures out if you shit it up just a little bit, people have to look at more ads>he gets a huge bonus and leaves>tool works slightly shittier than before but everyone is stockholmed to it>new suit walks in>repeat from step 2
>>97278628>An argument no one ever madeKek
>>97266322I know país GMs but they works in a club, so you're paying for the space moreso than the GM.
>nobody referencing the enshittification of video games2020 came and went and the normoids are leaving. What we have now, however, is a very solid AAA vidya -> indie vidya -> TTRPG pipeline as people grow increasingly dissatisfied with the gaming industry's offerings. This is the main reason paid DMing won't go anywhere: gamers want to GAME, they know forever GMs have the best games, and they will gladly pay (because hey, 10-20 bucks a session is better than 80+DLC+season pass + loot boxes + time-gated microtransactions + deluxe preorder bonus + playstation plus + pokemon home + tip for a game everyone stops playing in a month)
>>97283525>have to put in at least twice the time to maintain a comparable standard of living>have to suborn your own enjoyment of the hobby to that of your clients>can't even count on most small business resources because they won't recognize what you're doing>have to file a Schedule C>time spent on games for your friends is literally just more of the shit you do at workSounds like a fantastic recipe for burning yourself out on something you would otherwise enjoy.
