Have any of you ran your players through the Theater Kid Wood Chipper? How many of them tried to stick something in Acererak's mouth?
>>97382788Nope.
>>97383267If you say so, nogames.
>>97383279Yep, you're nogames.
>>97374022>Theater Kid Wood Chippersee>>97374137I play games with/run games for my friends. Why on earth would I intentionally make my friends play the most miserable, pointless, boring dungeon ever penned by one of the worst ttrpg designers ever to live?
>>97384592To weed out the self-righteous hipsters who hate adventure and just want a vapid therapy session from every game
How would you humanize enemy mooks even if the players have to put them down at the end of day? How do you make it so that players leaving piles of corpses in their wake is not a trivial matter?
>>97384224Everytime an enemy dies, you stop the combat to read a short obituary about the fallen, what was their childhood, what they did before becoming an armed mook, what aspirations were cut short, whom they left grieving.Do this enough times and players will think of non-lethal solutions really fast.
Consequences.Warrant for the arrest of the adventurers murdering law enforcement.Memorial placards of lost military.Increased recruitment drives taking any able bodied people regardless of interest.Suddenly that village they saved has lost all men 13 and older.That kid they saved? Killed in action.
>>97384224I wouldn't because that sounds fucking stupid.
>>97384329>while in the middle of combat a little boy comes running in to try and help his mook fatherDidn't stop me in Khan Yunis IRL, not gonna stop me in a game of make-believe. You can't humanize subhumans.
>>97384682That's the player's choice of course. It's simply a tool that makes the mook seem more real and alive.
It fucking sucks.Long live V20.That's the thread.
>>97383868I'm mostly confused about the way the combat round is ordered and what characters can and can't do. It seems like each character in combat is supposed to make different contest rolls at different stages, but the rules don't specify how many rolls a character can/should make per round. It also gets fucky when you have to deal with multiple opponents. Assume you're in a melee combat with multiple opponents and are being shot at by ranged attackers:>characters already in melee go first. You roll your relevant melee dice pool and split your successes among your opponents. Right off the bat is the issue of ordering. You'd like to know how many successes each opponent got so you can allocate your dice accordingly, but since combat is supposed to be simultaneous it doesn't make sense for the opponents to have already rolled before you. Is the Storyteller supposed to roll the enemy attacks first, or is the player supposed to guess how they should divide their successes?>Next, ranged attacks go offNow, you've already rolled your melee pool. Can you now also make a Dodge roll to contest any ranged attackers, or was that something you were supposed to decide at the beginning of the round? The rules don't explicitly define what all a character can do in a given round, so there's no answer to this question. >Lastly, characters entering melee this round actSo let's say another enemy enters and attacks you with a melee weapon. Do you then make another Melee or Dodge roll to contest them, or are you supposed to use the remaining successes from your first Melee/Dodge roll (assuming you still remember the result)?The game has literally nothing to clearly define how much characters can do on their turn. No movement rules. The combat in this game barely works, with the authors leaving a lot up to Storyteller fiat which ironically makes the game much more complicated and confusing than if they just wrote a solid ruleset.
>>97384510Can always steal shit from other games about initiative order and what actuals players can do and can't. There's a combat supplement iirc that gives you a better defined combat ruleset.
>>97384508I'd argue Werewolf is more beginner friendly particularly for the GM because it's the game where combat is expected fairly regularly and it feels good popping off Gifts. The system still has solid roleplaying mechanics too even with the focus on ripping and tearing.Vampire at its best is much more social and the combat is basically always clunky unless you're mowing down mooks at a higher level. Also it's much closer to what people will think of when it comes to "you're playing a Vampire". Werewolf is a game where you're kind of an eco-terrorist and a ton of the lore and abilities even at a basic level will leave newbies to WoD asking "What does this have to do with being a Werewolf?"I love both games. WoD is wonderful and gonzo in a way that you can't really recapture anymore (I'm blanking on any nu-lore that doesn't suck). Avoid the newest editions, go with the 20th Anniversary.
>>97384625You sort of have to know a lot of lore to even make a Werewolf PC don't you?
>>97384754I guess. Breed is if you want to be a human-born, wolf-born, or the literally twisted sterile spawn of two werewolves Metis. Only the latter requires a bit more information on what the hell is going on. Tribe: although breaking or subverting the stereotypes of the tribes can go in a million directions, you really can sum them up in a couple sentences each to go from there. Tribe is as much a class as it is your race since so many Gifts are tied to them.Auspice: the only lore you'd need on character creation here would be that it's the phase of the moon you're most attuned to and first shapeshifted under, and it determines your overall role as a Garou (the other term for Werewolf that players should get use to). Basically your class.
"Who Cares" EditionArchives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97373370>Thread Question: What's your favorite sci-fi world?
>>97384385Can geonosians even be Jedi? They are all hiveminded sociopaths.
>>97384244Some of these options costing points is a little retarded. Why does your worldview and lightsbaer color of all things cost so many? It's needlessly restrictive.
>>97384713>restrictiveYou get more than enough enough points to make a good build, even if you special snowflake every choice.
>the height of Angelanon drama was nearly a decade ago
>>97384618But then you wasted 2 slots on a literally who instead of the based vampire or necromancer allies.
Whirling dervishes, magical orders in the middle of the desert, guuls, djinn spirits, and the like?
>>97370719it's very clunky in some places, but it has something very positive for what you want.The "metaphysics" of the game is that things work how people think they work. That is, the majority belief holds true and this can vary from region to region (someone who has learned a magical practise in one region can carry it to another and use it there, but the reigning metaphysics will change). That means you can have characters from one region turn up in another and go "wow this place is strange, even the magic is weird, why are there so few djinni here? why are their mages so strange?" and have mechanical backing to that. Since world travel is difficult and slow, it's not a setting and era where people can easily compare notes and do that "unified theory of magic" thing that happens in some modern D&D games.
No.
There a few spin offs.
The Nightmares Underneath is an OSR game with a middle-eastern (mainly Persian) theme.
>>97370156Yeah there's a couple in the 90's for a bunch of different lines.Then someone decided having fun with slightly stereotypical versions of historical cultures is only okay if they're European.
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.
>>97375148Good morning, welcome to 2008 it took you long enough. In fact most of infinitys visual art style issues are caused by them leaving the key guidelines of Shirrow's art
>>97375518>And the guys are still so insecure they have to find some rocks to stand on.I absolutely DESPISE models with tactical rocks and such that they're stepping on
>>97381013The rock just got 5 mms higher
>>97374056>>97375516I don't think there are many games that haven't had this problem. WHFB had it. Warmachine had it. 40k has it.
We have all experienced the coming and going so GMs, Players and games; and then left holding the bag too start all over again at Square One. If and when you have to start over from scratch how and where (online) would you start I'll look for groups and games?There has been numerous reasons that would force someone to start all over again be it scheduling, life, work, people changing.
>>97367695He's referring to the "Without Numbers" series. So "Worlds/Stars/Cities/Ashes Without Numbers"
>>97382438Why did you just reply to your own post, bumpfag?
>>97349305I'd find a dungeon crawler board game and a case of beer and 3-4 well adjusted fun people with good hygeine
>>97349305I play with my friends rather than randos, so I've never had to experience this and likely won't ever have to experience this since all of my friends have lives and work jobs and we play around their schedules.If I ever reached that point I'd probably just drop the hobby all together, because I'm not here for MUH COMMUNITY or MUH HOBBY or whatever collectivist garbage you faggots whine about, I'm here to play a game with my friends.>>97349886>Not having friendsWhat's it like being a miserable misanthrope?
Start over in current year? I don't. I take one look at the low quality garbage that focuses entirely on pandering and realize its not a good hobby.
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>>97384356well honestly I did have my complaints but I held back on saying it solely because we had so many complaints about stuff before, but it was said anyways by others about how it's hard to distinguish characters with pretty much only the tech tree since we stripped out the other half of the CYOA.I still think it's serviceable even if it ain't the top 50% of CYOA's we've used in the past.
>>97384384>how it's hard to distinguish characters with pretty much only the tech treeWhich is why we have flavour and personality. Also friend bonuses, those are fun.
>>97384417I mean it's a lot of leveraging for what little we have. The builds we have are fine but there is only so far you can go on all the tech branches. I think the only ones really not touched on yet are vehicles and colossal robots, or I guess you can also say the different power sources can technically make more combinations/distinctions between builds.
>>97384046>Thinkering 3Lumbers Man...
>>97384441Colossal robots, cool though they are, are also the least useful option for narrative play
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>>97383644nah it's over There's a reason Beatbreak randomly has the biggest human cast ever
>>97383644No idea. Digimon doesn't tend to do sequels, but they also said it's supposed to be the TCG setting so maybe? Alysion is supposed to be set in the same universe as Liberator so the story that it might have could be a sequel.
>>97383644The specific story, no.They've already said Liberator will remain the setting for TCG original content going forward like Alysion though.
if I don't pull Homeros at prerelease I don't build any TS decksSimple as
>>97372059>Pure appmon decks needs those draws because it is fucking miserable to play due to how specific it is to evo for """"""free""""""""That's nice, but I was talking about Digixros.
Out on Patrol Edition>What is this?/TG/ DEVELOPED A GAMEIT IS PLAYABLE. IT HAS BEEN PLAYED.EXPEDITION is a ~1880s era, Jules Verne-inspired retro-futurist, underground blood soaked adventurescape.It is a Skirmish wargame. Two players with their own expeditions, on a hexgrid map, explore & fight each other for victory and profit.3 versions of the rules exist, 2 of which have been playtested. The main one is 2e, to be found :>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/us7vnek39dc6k/AgarthaRulesas with maps, tokens and lore resources.>TL;DR Dochttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxdaGoBlJRTMuziMDupG5TeeFwNDnsIW2pfaRAcFDgA>Main Lore Doc, including links to anon-written short stories and additional lore in "Recommended..." sectionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97372459>or did they actually use some tech?I've written it as such whenever working with stuff for it rules or lore-wise. I figured that's where the Derilect Tripod came from before the campaign map with it entombed in stone came out.>The driver inside was slain, splashed to the four winds. The body, now nothing more than an intricate device of metal, went whirling to destruction (the fourth layer somehow)
Oh wow, we actually reached the image limit before the bump limit.
Would the british release compsognathus or coelophysis in Australia to try to control the rabbit/rat infestation, only for them to become a plague of their own?
>>97372459I feel like there should be Hyperborean technology remnants, they need somewhere to get the Memory guns and such, but because most of it is psychically radioactive they keep most of it in deep storage with Top Men. Also allows us some leeway to write some SCP style horror stories with Hyperborean stuff in containment, and people trying to get that stuff without realising the dangers.>>97377520>Australia with dinos fighting the local wildlifekino
Are the edit backgrounds stored anywhere? I'd like to try printing some out to see how my models do against them. Or I could shop them in instead.
Many of you had a schizophrenic attack approximately 14 weeks ago. This is the place to admit you were wrong, apologize for your lack of discernment and over-confidence, and start to think about how you'll make amends to the community.
>>97383962 Bait and spam threads for days. wait for the retard who will come in and screaming about how generals are evil or something.
>>97383891Literally none of these look like women; which is amusingly on trend for GW because the woman Custodes don't look like women either.>>97384202Indeed.
>the pot isn't boiling chud. stop paying attention to the water
>>97384668You imagined both the pot and the water, due to your fundamental motivating force being Fear.
>>97384722>okay it's only happening over there, it won't happen here oh my science it's not that bad anyways...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekU3T9M3E9IFrenopolis is a gamified tetragrammaton clothed in the memetic zeitgeist.This thread is for discussion and development logging.It's easiest to learn with YGO/MTG experience.It's not for sale, but you can request a free physical 2-player 90 card set by following the instructions in the description of this video:https://youtu.be/oPoBUoagO_k(No payment or identifying info required)Playmats have arrived and will be sent out with the playtesting kits. Anyone who already received a set with the shipping label name "Current Resident" should be receiving one by 1/10/26. If your shipping label was not sent to "Current Resident", email or DM me on telegram so I can send you one. Tabletop Simulator Demo Implementation:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97377056>Show us your workI'm not the one making claims I have dozens of people asking for my homebrew here. I got my own group and we're happy doing our own thing and not trying to pretend we have the next DnD on our hands. >you won't, because you make nothing, and only exist to curate other people's creations, which you hate.Who are you quoting here? Anyway, I don't hate this project, I'm just calling out obvious bullshit and laughing at your failing attempts at defending it.Still waiting to see proof.
Everytime I check this thread I just can't fathom how you can put so much effort into something so shit. You could easily go to /vg/agdg and /ic/ and find two anons to turn these ideas into an actual interesting game
>>97377066Tried to NFT this game back in 2021. That's peak scammer.
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>>97377056the basic types will still exist:Entities, Memes, Structures (like mtg creatures, sorceries, artifacts etc)The typing done in both pokemon and magic is very loosely defined, for example a card being blue (mtg) or green (pokemon) is only a very loose indication of what its interaction scope might be in-game, mtg especially is filled with exceptions, and pokemon doesn't even try (their typing is arbitrary, like YGO).In frenopolis, the color-typing is defined in terms of the board itself. so if you know a card's color, you will know exactly its interaction scope. the only change here is I don't want to limit myself to "technology" themed or loosely related images for the blue color (for example). The blue color will be any image/meme that looks like it has an effect that operates in/between the Earth and Air elements, which correspond to zones (Archive, Void), and types (Structures, Memes, Narrative).see this image:>>97282597for example, all i'm experimenting with is removing the term "alchemy" from orange. Now it will just be "Orange". everything else stays the same.
How do I get my players to stop calling everything dwarf related "digslop"?
>>97355167Dwarves aren't chads, they're superficially masculine but sexless so as to be safe in a time when male sexuality is demonized. Conan was a chad.
>>97354435Cut them short.
>>97354630>>97354651Kiss.
>>97354435no one says that. you don't play games
>>97354597>>97354630Shut up faggot we will make 100 more threads like this when you complain
Just fucking release a box of like 20 MK7 helmets. They are clearly making them.
Stop spamming 40slop threads.
>>97384077Can't you simply 3d print them?
>>97384256yup
>>97384037I like mark 4 heads, primaris basically have mark 4 heads. Subtly different but basically. I even used a primaris librarian head and the back piece of a grey knights torso once to make a helmeted mark 4 librarian.I like mark 7 heads too. And 6, and so on.So nah don't care, what I dislike about primaris armour is the low neck and high midriff, the kneepads, the crappy backpack with a big circle on it... And of course the slightly too human proportions - the new regular marine proportions seen on chaos marines and Deathwatch veterans are kino. Half a head shorter than primaris, hitting a sweet spot where they look good but I can imagine them inhumanly broad under their armour.
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>DID YOU JUST IMPLY SOMEONE WITH A 100 ACCURACY WAS CHEATING IN CHAT??? THAT’S NOT A HECKIN KINDNESS!!!!! SHADOW MUTE!!! WE’LL SEE HOW YOU LIKE TALKING TO A WALL, CHUD!!!!>DID YOU JUST MAKE A SECOND ACCOUNT WHILE SHADOWMUTED OF WHICH WE GAVE NO NOTIFICATION!!! THAT’S CIRCUMVENTING OUR AUTHORITY!!!!! BAN BAN BAN!!!!!>DID YOU JUST CREATE A THIRD ACCOUNT IN YOUR ENTIRE HISTORY OF USING LICHESS??? WE STRICTLY FORBID MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A CHEEKY ALR ACCOUNT AS LONG AS WE DIDN’T SHADOWMUTE YOU FIRST!!!! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR!!!! BAN BAN BAN!!!!!!!
Are there any good Chesstubers that aren't GothamChess? He's so conceited that he pisses me off.
>>97384424Tons of them, but what do you want?If you want some random recs, then Daniel King (for high level game review), Andras Toth (for bombastic coaching kind of advice but less conceited), Daniel Naroditsky (RIP) for educational stomping on lower rated players but in a nice way, and the Aman Hambleton half of Chessbrah for same at a much lower level (Building Habits series especially if you're new.)Chess Dojo is good for like "chess talk radio" stuff as long as they aren't interviewing people (I think they suck as interviewers, but if it's just the three of them chatting it's fun to listen to) and the absolute best if you want computer-free real time slow analysis of stuff like the candidates tournament, especially as a lot of the "official" coverages has gotten worse, these guy have become my favorite thing to watch to understand wtf just happened in the big tournaments when they actually cover them (just Candidates and World Championship usually).Those are some personal favorites, but there are a lot of people out there, and I'd put GothamChess as like my 3rd? least favorite. Maybe not that bad, because like I said there's a lot, but I don't remember all the crap.Also, be aware that Pegasus Chess is a cheater/scam artist who is just making stuff up for clickbait and doesn't actually know what he's talking about, so stay away from those.
>>97384509Thanks for the recs. I think Danya's videos/streams are exactly what I'm looking for, but he's no longer with us sadly. I'm a newer player, hovering around 500, so that kind of "this is what beginners usually play, this is what you should be playing, this is how you punish these mistakes" are very valuable to me. But for the future I think I'll check out Andras Toth and Chess Dojo.
>>97384580For now, I'd recommend two other things: John Bartholomew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9iOeK_jvUJohn might be a bit too chill for some people, but I can't imagine anyone calling him conceited, and he's very educational.Chess Brah's building habits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8N8j2e7RpPnpqbISqi1SJ9_wrnNU3rEmThere are also edited shorter versions out there, and kind of the same type of content but focussed on specific openings from him if you like them.
