You should ALWAYS cheese every encounter. If you EVER end up in a situation that even remotely resembles a fair fight, just run away and wait until you can rig the situation to your favor. Use your fucking brain. Even if it is highly improbable for you to lose a given fight, statistically speaking, you'll still eventually croak if you keep taking those bets. Don't leave it up to chance. It's easier than you might think, you just need to use your noggin. It's not a video game. You can do whatever the fuck you want.Just the other night my party ran into a melee monster in a narrow ass room that they for some reason decided to ram their dicks into until someone died. When I suggested that we retreat for a bit and lure it into the room with the big ass statues so we can all just climb them and shoot it to death, they looked at me like I just escaped from the looney bin. They all died of course.
>>97251808My experience is that it's usually 1.) underestimating how stupid players are2.) forgetting that the dice can just go 'uh-ho, stinky!' for an entire encounter and that this isn't even statistically very anomalous
>>97250948Damn I haven't DM'd in a long time, has the community really become so lame that even a tactical retreat is a faux pas? When the fuck did trpgs go from being a careful dungeon crawl with death aeound every corner that required you to maximize your characters attack stragey, to some lame jerk off session that's more about *feels* and epic scenes than it is crunching numbers and trying to get out alive? Has the gaming community really become so lame?
>>97252729If you don't care then it should be no problem for my character to leave your imbecilic ass to die?
>>97253452Nah, there's a big difference in going "Let's get to a more tactically advantageous position" and "Let's cheese every encounter unless I have an overwhelming advantage". The latter is just a waste of people's time, particularly if the one trying to cheese encounters them complains about not being able to level up or get good loot.
>>97253472Actually, there is no difference. Either you're playing to your advantage or you aren't.
Thread #02 Lean Winter on the TundraPrevious Thread: >>97090196Welcome to /un0/, an RP thread for playing a World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness Hunter. For any OOC questions about WoD/CofD, check the official general. >>97224887Rules:>We are acephale. There is no storyteller, we are not a quest.>This thread is based primarily but not exclusively in the nWoD/CofD game Hunter: the Vigil. However, Vigil is defined by being highly setting agnostic, with a system for creating entirely custom monsters that do not exist in other WoD/CofD games. Thus, you have significant freedom in what you want to play and what you want to hunt. Feel free to play a member of the Society of Leopold, or a member of the Lucifuge hot on the tail of a Lasombra.>Namefagging is encouraged but by no means mandatory.>Keep in mind that even highly experienced Hunters typically only have fractured pieces of the puzzle, and every table has their own canon. The night is dark and full of misinformation.>/un0/ is conceived of as an experimental end to end encrypted program that is very hard to compromise, retains very little data and purges that data regularly. Please play an actual Hunter.>Spoiler any OOC discussion.Happy hunting. Unless this thread somehow takes off like a rocket, this will be the last un0 thread for the foreseeable future. Towards the end of the thread, please give your feedback in regard to these shorter, limited run RP threads.
>>97251954What utility does Two give?
>>97252060Gender/Sex/Man&Woman, Duality, Disparity, Binary, Night /Day, Hot/Cold, for something to have identity it is One, for something to recognize itself there must be Two. Two also as mentioned represents a mating pair. Two divides, but by dividing also multiplies.
Might anyone be familiar with creatures capable of influencing emotion? Particularly feelings of tranquility, or ennui. I am finding myself concerned with how at peace I am feeling. >>97251920Great to hear everything worked out, especially your armor. Good equipment is so hard to come by, each piece deserves to be cherished. Did the pocket realm collapse after its prisoner died?
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>>97250451While I do not know of a reliable way of finding them I could offer some potential way of trapping them. I assume iron would work in a similar manner to silver's effect on werewolves. Iron restraints would be a good starting point, from there I would suggest getting a holy artifact or someone who's well-versed in holy rituals. Your safest best is combining everything and getting a real miracle worker involved (yes, they exist). If you ever capture such demon I could recommend some proven interrogation methods.
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>>97253242You know, I never thought to actually look up the background to the story. That IS pretty funny.
>>97253109What if he just shave every night?
AI Slop of lovely young Acanthus, Adamantine Arrow Talon wearing enchanted kimono that allows Invisibility and Flight.
>>97253028Citizen, do not argue with the deviant known as Hedgefag. Logig has proven too complex for him and I doubt even Mind procedures would be able to help.
>>97253028And Curseborne is number 2 there, so it's clearly not an all-time list.
On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
>>97250408Presumably the exact age would be cultural, like it is with humans (there really isn't any specific biological reason why it's not OK to have sex with a 17 years old but it is OK with an 18 years old, 18 just happens to be the number we've decided on as being old enough to have the necessary mental and physical development to definitely count as an adult). Probably whatever age they reach sexual maturity plus a year or two to make sure.
Some aliens may reproduce by having pollen spread that fertilizes whoever it touches rather than copulation, consent probably isn't done the same way with such aliens.
>>97251832I'm so sick of this "muh 4 limbs is most optimal" line of argument. Our number of limbs has NOTHING to do with some sort of biological optimum. Our number of limbs stems from our evolutionary history from how our bodies develop during the embryonic stage. If there was some sort of evolutionary pressure towards small limb counts we wouldn't see arthropods with limbs numbering from 6 all the way to over a thousand depending on the clade and the species.The reason landbound vertabrates have 4 lims is because we evolved from a 4 limbed ancestors, and the way our bodies develop makes it very, very hard for extra limbs to be cleanly added to our form. That is because the bodysegments/tagma in chordates are heavily fused, including our limb producing segments, thus essentially in order to produce new limbs you'd need a series of mutations that solely duplicate the parts of the genome responsible for limb development, in a way that these extra limbs still cleanly connect and join the rest of the bodyplan.In comparison, something like a centipede, whose bodyplan retains entirely unfused limb producing bodysegments, can just replicate those segments as they grow in size without any issues, as if they were just adding identical beads to a rosary string. Whereas for vertabrates, if we use similar comparison, the parts of our bodies from which our limbs grow out out, are all tangled up in the same body segments that also develop our internal organs and shit. Essentially, our torsos are a product of multiple bodysegments fusing together in our early evolutioary history, leading to the 4 limb configuration.Same process is why insects have just 6 limbs, or why spiders have only 8 limbs and so on. Once body segment fusion happens it is very hard for evolution to untangle it.
>>97253368no anon that's verifiable and testable i prefer my evolution speculation to be stoner tier ass pulling about hypothetical selective pressures
>>97251832>he still thinks the food chain is a pyramid
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anyone got mythic bastionland?
Any chance for a reup of Visions of kal arath 3?Last link is down
Hello! Is there anything like a trove of four against darkness stuff?I have the basic book already and would like to know more.
Hi. I'm looking for Lustria (WFRP4e), but the latest update (Jun 5, 2024).
>>97252932Bitchin! Thanks Universal Wishgranter!!!
maps and mapmaking. more specifically, there's something that's been bothering me for a while now. There are endless skirmish-scale settlement-scale and topographic-scale square grid mapmaking tools online, and that's great. There's plenty of topography-scale hexgrid mapmakers too, presumably because of D&D's ancient use of hexgrids for overland travel. and that's great too. There arent many hexmakers ive found for settlement scale maps, but i've had some luck torturing them out of the battletech mapmaker in the megamek software, or other videogames that generously offer to print the outputbutfor the life of me i cannot find a decent skirmish-scale hexgrid mapmaker. i must have tried a dozen programs by now, but the ones that offer hexgrids are either borderline unuseable or just put a hexagonal overlay over a square grid. it's ridiculous that after decades of computer tools for TTRPGS the best i've found is GIMP where i have to draw the damn things by hand. Not to mention the endless enshitification of google makes it harder and harder to find niche programs to match what i need.what are you anons using to create your maps?do you know of any decent skirmish-scale hexmappers (that are free, or at least worth the price)?what do you think of maps in general, do you even use them?i'll share any spare maps i have within the size limit to get the ball rolling
>>97245603Holy shit I recognize this.
>>97244264>>97244277>>97244286I did a political ttrpg using wesnoth, it worked very well and I'd recommend anyone use it for larger scale maps. Can't do rivers though.
>>97251850well i want to bitch and moan about outdated analytical and design tools!this map is a good examplei designed it to spite most tools and to reject most points of design philosophy>Melan diagramexcluding single rooms and redundant loops, this entire map is reductively a single straight line with maybe one branching path>jayquasingthere are two enterences (main door and brooken roof of the den) but otherwise...no elevation changes, sub-levels, branching paths, loop-backs, sub-spaces or warps, sub-dungeons, midpoint entries or hidden paths. it relies entirely... on dynamism.>some bandits have been operating out of this ruined structure (based in the den, which they have sealed)>it is actually an undead settlement, who they are exploiting to defend their base>the inner ring cannot be accessed without taking the key from the guardian in it's chamber >the undead if alerted by themselves or the bandits will rally their full force (barring those locked in the inner ring), leading to an unwinnable fight and forced retreat from the hideoutComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97251565>we need you to pay to use our softwareoka->monthy on one of two subscription packages>also we need your email if you want to try the demo>its online only, you cant download itsell me on this. does it have options to snap walls to the hex grid? how many terrain options do i have, can it flexibly do building interiors? it looks good from what you've done, but everything about its marketing and distribution model makes it seem like a piece of shit. i already have free (bad) hexgrid makers, i dont want to waste time signing up for something else that wont work right
>>97253324There's a free version. I used free for years before I decided I was getting enough out of it, every week, to start paying for it. The free version is good. The paid version is better.I was just curious whether you understood that the tool you're asking for already exists. Inkarnate has been pretty good for about 10 years. Yeah it's got free draw, hex versions, lots of textures and brushes... it's good. There's a reason it's most of the maps you see on /tg/.
I have wanted to play RPGs for years and posted on /tg/ for like a decade, but have never found someone to play with. Finally my kids are old enough to play with me, but the problem is, I don't know HOW to play. Like, what is a game supposed to even look like? All the rulebooks I've read go over in depth the character creation and mechanics, etc. but none really paint a picture of the structure and flow of the game and what it is supposed to look like. Where do I start??
>>97249700>Moldvay>cleric waifu>BargleBargle and the cleric are in Mentzer not Moldvay anon
>>97249710They have to show you the rope so you can take the knot.
>>97249395I don't get it.
>>97252792What are the pros/cons of this over B/X, which is what I was planning on going with
>>97253357Pros: ascending AC, more streamlined, officially free, modular (there are lots of plug and play rules available), no races as classes.Cons: math is somewhat different from b/x (the one thing i remember is, for example, the cleric attack bonus progression is mismatched frok b/x) so you can't automatically translate b/x modules, or to be more precise you can if you don't give a shit and just eyeball everything.
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>>97252964This kind of shit, along with my players consistently never showing up to sessions on time or leaving early or going on their phones etc, has permanently damaged D&d for me
>>97252387Put a +1 on it to make it a 14. Also, this is Standard Array, not Point Buy.
>>97253006I can't imagine this making sense to anyone who doesn't know what D&D classes already are and how stats work, or being helpful to anyone who does.>"How do I make a character?">Well, strength (and constitution) is for melee weapon classes like fighter and barbarian.>"Got it, thanks."
>>97253006You just listed some of the factors that might be important, without actually addressing the why and some of the how. What do they want to do with their character? Each class has things that they are good at doing or are part of the class identity. Decide on which of those things are most important and then pick the corresponding class.Next, what kind of background does the character have? This will matter both mechanically (will give you proficiency in skills that make sense for your character as well as a bonus to stats that are important for your character's class) as well as for roleplay (a character who grew up as a Sailor would be played differently than one that was a Farmer). The ones listed in the guidebook are mostly fine, but you can also work with your DM to make your own if you have a specific idea for a character's backstory (or if you want to be a Monk that isn't a Sailor).You also get to pick your race (species now? I forget), which gives your character additional abilities and informs how your character roleplays. Think about what your character's culture is like and if you want to have certain attributes.After you do those things and decide if you want to have the equipment each class and background provides, then you roll and/or allocate your stats, write down your class and background abilities, and pick your spells if you have them.
>>97252298int is undertuned so they need to trick you into taking it
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Why are FTGO Gatchaniggers surprised? Isn't Nasu the same guy that famously said that he hates happy endings and enjoys making his characters suffer? Imagine wasting your time and money on such a no-fun-allowed faggot lol.
>>97253360Tentacle realm itself has expanded to more of a general perverted isekai, and I don't know if Encroached Realms that Crux is working on is actually focused on the tentacles or just a similar style of a sexually corrupted fantasy world like tentacle realm. I mean Crux has talked about it a lot on trash, but I haven't kept up with it.
>>97253347I don't think so, its from someone that only did this and another short thing about being a healer.>>97253366Canonically Oni is the best for combat
>>97253104>>97253106Thanks anon. I never understood why the author added a singular nsfw image to this cyoa. 99% of it is perfectly family friendly.
>>97253377nta but i did not know that, but now it makes so many things make so much sense now so thank you, i do have to admit doe, ignoring the bullshit gambling shit and whatnot, the game itself and alot of its story is pretty darn good, great and well fleshed out characters (except a few of them iirc), great material for fans not just the fan service scenes and outfits but more than that, gameplay thats kinda fun atleast for the while that i played it, and fairly great story to everything, honestly they might have had something great if they had someone else write the ending or forced nasu to stop making people depressed and suffer and whatnot but eh
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>>97253291thx, it's this one https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7792
>All these collages >Feels like I painted a lot this year>tfw I realise I didn't finish a single one of them thoughWell I guess if I finish them properly next year then that will pad my collage.
Anyone care to post your fulgrim minis if you have them? I need inspiration
>>97253195>grimguard jungle raptorsBased, I was looking at these, too. If you wouldn't mind, you think you could post some pics? Especially when compared to the Space Nam stuff. >catachan banebladeMake sure to post pics, I can't wait for that one.
>>97252068>>97252093>>97252451>>97252933>>97253126>>97253255Fantastic work you all, I'm really happy to see all these again especially since I remember most of them as wips! I hope you're all going to be here around this time next year to post 2026 collages.
What's the /tg/ consensus on Dragonbane? Looks like a neater, faster 5e clone with not as much bloat in it, which is exactly what i'm looking for.
>>97253088>classless d20 roll under system>5e clone
I like a lot of the pieces from reading the book, but it's not interesting enough for me to actually use it in its entirety.
>>97253170>no no it's totally different bro you see this time you want the small number instead of the big numberKek, not classless btw.
>>97253263I admit i didn't check it out extensively (because a nth generic fantasy game doesn't suit my needs) and i can misremember stuff but i'm pretty sure "classes" in dragonbane are akin to brp professions (as in templates of abilities) you can safely rearrange as you like. Also if all it takes to you for a game being 5e is having a d20 then even modiphius Conan must be a 5e clone.
>>97253088It's DoD but with a D20, card based intiative and in English.
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>>97253241Yes, but he didn't "hide his emotions" as much as he talked her around and she willingly lowered her guard before he sucker punched her.The point of that scene wasn't "hiding from the force" as much as she had no real idea how to fight outside the constraints of lightsaber combat and approached every fight with a lightsaber as a duel. The idea that she could treat it like a brawl was foreign to her.
>>97253343actually I think it works better and expains how they were so quick to get TK troopers out the door, plus at the time project war-mantle was kept secret from the public and senatecorrect me if i'm wrong, but you never saw TK troopers in a "public" setting (e.g local garrison in S3 E4) until after the military recuitment bill is voted for in S2?the real issue is the vader comic burning seas arc, and the timeline placement of tales of the underworldso the only logical conclusion I can make of it, because it's a mess, is both designs were made before we got the finalized design/stormtrooper armour won out
>>97253355I forgot about the desix episode having TK troopersso the answer is "I don't know", maybe TK troopers were meant to be more elite than stormtroopers hence the commando training and placement at facilities like tantiss, but got mixed in with the stormtrooper corps once the military recruitment bill got passedunfortunately this is just me making shit up to try and explain a mess of lore, I hope they clarify it
>>97253235The point of the training was to give her a paradigm outside of Jedi Academy formalized dueling or adjacent to it, which was something her brother actually had.Each of the authors in the LOTF series had their own little spin off. One author was writing about Antilles' family and the other...someone else, which was so forgettable I can't remember.
>>97244655>>97244929I love armored women in scars so much, it's unreal. I hope she is not femlet.
Does anyone else feel like the Byzantine Empire is the closest thing human-kind had to an Elven civilization analogy during our actual history's middle ages? Or am I crazy?Even the part where their highly advanced culture was eventually wiped off the face of the Earth and forgotten in most normie perceptions of history.
>>97222151>Does anyone else feel like the Byzantine Empire is the closest thing human-kind had to an Elven civilization analogy during our actual history's middle ages?Petty and corrupted?
>>97249695>>97222887>>97222605Look at the buttmad βαρβάρους.
>>97249834Greeks are the ones with no empire who endured 400 years of foreign occupation, 500 if you consider that the Greek royal family were Germans.
>>97249834>βαρβάρους>says someone without stable financial institution
>>97222151They were Gondor. Gondor was patterned after them. Not elves.
>>97171444 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97249468Not enough lizardmen figures out there...
>>97245660You could try a bunch of the Ral Partha legacy stuff. If I remember rightly they are 1/68, which might be close enough to 1/72.
>>97245660zvezda are quite big for 1/72 and are close to true 25mm iirc
Based Perry Twins being Christian Merry Christmas Chads instead of happy holidays chuds. No wonder they are such a great miniature company
>>97253046Do you happen to have any zvezda vehicles like tanks or APCs?
In all seriousness, how can you get yourself to enjoy playing games when /tg/ players are so insufferable, socially and aesthetically in real life >try to play 40k >it's all actual obese autists with animes T shirts and don't understand the concept of an inside voice >try to play RPGs>It's fat 40 year olds with goatee or ungroomed beard and shaved head, marvel T shirt and jorts and wearing those weird flat Irish hats >visit LGS on card gaming night >take one whiff and immediately turn around and leave It's actually distressing because I want to actually get to play in the hobby I love so much, but it doesn't seem to be possible if you can't find normal people to play with Solution?
>>97251959This. I've only ever played, and still play, WHF with dudes in their 40s and shit. People with jobs and kids and wives but can still have a beer and a game of Warhams while not smelling like diarrhea. The only people I see playing 40k at my LGS are kids. Acne ridden, söy brained, hair dyed faggot kids.
>>97251959About that...
>>97253257Yeah, kids today, eh? Wearing weird clothes, stupid slang, loud and annoying, no respect for their elders. Would have never happened in my day.
>>97250075I play with people I actually LIKE, OP. Maybe you should try it sometime instead of believing stereotypes.
>>97252059>>97253268Good one. Doesn't change the fact OP should try other "wargames"
