Sharing useful wisdom that has helped me run more satisfying games. Trying to share some less common advice. These are my opinions and techniques that have helped me. I’d love to hear what has worked for other /tg/ DMs.1. Time pressure- adding time pressure through use of "clocks" including real life clocks is incredibly helpful to add pressure and tension to a scenario. Giving players choices but not enough time to make every choice adds meaning to those choices. Time pressure in combat is a contentious, but powerful tool to discuss with your players. Forcing a decision in seconds makes combat stressful and - when players are on board- fun (in anticipation of the common objection: if the players don’t make a choice in combat, I usually come back to them before round end, I never have them “just stand there”. Remember to assume character competency).2- The GM-ing engine- It's okay to front load content and prepare a few different rail-roady hooks in the first few sessions. Being a GM is like starting one of those old prop engines with a winch. It takes a while for the pistons (players) to kick into gear. Once they do, after a few sessions, all you need to do is apply gas. Solve the tavern problem by figuring out how characters know each other prior to the first session. 3- Immersion means impact- After a session, reflect on how the player choices affected the world (for good or ill), try to let the ripple of that effect emerge in the next session. Players that feel like they change the world around them invest in it.
>>97287221>Why, yes, I am a never-gamed, how can you tell?
>>97287762>The nogames railroader is seething that he got called outYour games suck and so do you.
97287771>Railroading means "anything I don't like!"And this is why we have to be specific with our terms.
>>97287766Didn't ask but thanks for letting everyone in the thread know.
>>97287779>newfag can't replyBAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SCP editionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97279640>If I have to pick then it will be the one that eliminates kaiju. I don't remember their name.NTA but an MTF is literally called "Kaijumancers" in SCP-5000, but there's probably another MTF that you're thinking of.
>>97266292>Would you join the SCP Foundation or one of its rivals?Yeah, it seems like a good gig if you join it willingly. The MTFs have a shorter life expectancy but it's one of the most exciting jobs in the world.>Which Mobile Task Force would you join?I don't know the names but I've spent enough time on /x/ that I'd want to deal with supernatural or psi anomalies.>Have you played any of the tabletop games based on SCP?No.
>>97281610Oh and out of SCP's rivals, Church of the Broken God is really cool.
Book Club starter questions:>What works?>What's cool about it?>Why is it so effective?>What is the best part of it in your opinion?>Thoughts on the characters?>Is the villain effective?>If you had to pick a moment that really scared you, which would it be?>Is there anything you feel could have been expanded upon?>What would you change?>Would you use it as inspiration for a game?
>>97270325UA is a name I haven't heard in a damn long time, so consider my interest piqued at least slightly even if I've written Peele off as someone with no real matter behind the persona he's built for himself and I particularly dread whatever shit he's cooking up with Kojima next. >>97273139>Never looked too much into Unknown Armies but it looks like a good vehicle for adapting certain stories. Definitely something to look into more.Can't speak for 3rd edition but yes, it makes an extremely effective system with the five traumas and three passions be very effective baked in levers for character play. Pretty much how I got into playing horror games in the first place.
Trench Raiding With The Lads Edition>What is Trench Crusade?An alternate weird history 28mm/32mm tabletop skirmish game still in a pre-release playtesting phase but with the full release slated for this year. Based on the art and lore of Mike Franchina, whose illustrations you may have seen floating around on /tg/ for a several years now, and designed by Tuomas Pirinen, one of the original creators of Mordheim. It's grimdark, it's visceral, it's awesome, and it's very Blanchitsu.>What Trench Crusade is notTC not an excuse for you to discuss IRL religion, history that didn't occur in the game, culture war shit, or discord bullshit on /tg/. Keep it on topic.>What's the QRD on the background?The Knights Templar turned heretic and opened the Gates of Hell when they took Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Over 800 years later the war is still ongoing as technology has developed to a pseudo diesel-punk WW1 standard and a third of Humanity has sided with the Infernal Princes.>How do I get started?All the files are free online:https://www.trenchcrusade.com/rules/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97284800I’m so WYSIWYG that I learned basic 3D modelling so I could properly ‘digital kitbash’ models.
/Trench/ I'm looking into ways of making my bases better. So far I've seen I need to get a lot of cork, and putty. What else should I get?
>>97287544Texture paste, but you could make your own with a variety of materials.
>>97287614Got good examples of what you recommend?
Is it a good advice for game masters who want to run campaign in the "exotic" place instead of generic "coast of swords" clone?
>>97286254Nope, I'll play this game and I'll kill all the niggers and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>97286254All women are colonizers in gaming spaces
>>97284794>outsiders trying to save the tribal cultureWhy would i want to do that. No, my Taldan Nobleman will go there to find some taldan relics from the time the taldan army of exploration went there with a super weapon, but got crushed by demon monkeys. He doesnt give a fuck about the tribal people.My wizard is looking for ruins of the ancient hyper magic civilization and their flying cities, he too doesnt care about the the tribal guys.My mystic is looking for that one portal to another planet hidden in Mwangi, the struggles of the locals are their own
>>97286254And it's totally okay to ignore the advice Paizo gives and the feelings they have about certain people. Take the best, ignore the rest.
>>97287309There is nothing good.
Redneck EditionDiscuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.QOTT: Which artists do you think drew the best elves?
>>97284972is that because your elf baby-sitter diddled you when you were a wee lad?
>>97287623i do not dispute their significance, but i did specify "from a tabletop" for a reason
>>97287563Deed was from the tabletop before she was from the anime.
>>97287763I'd vote Nissa from MTG. She's easily the most significant named elf in that game.
>>97287773oops, meant to quote >>97287563Or anime Nissa if you really want.
>Brutus' Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1qb0_OLhDrDYVVpbllIREdOczg?resourcekey=0-m3LU1xaC5-PnnA0VLRfK9g>DriveAnon's Drivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cx7KoDkQa9qmDfJN9_CehZ0fxXEweKOu?usp=sharing>Jumpchain IRC Chathttp://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?#JumpchainCYOA>Ruleshttp://pastebin.com/Gqj3iKyn>How to Jumpchainhttp://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1qb0_OLhDrDVDFBR2NpdG03S0U/viewComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97284144That's not the same thing
>>97286714Go back to twicechan
>>97287149Why?
This jobber lookin' ZESTY, this jobber lookin' MOIST, he's got sugar in his tank, he's light on his feet, he's a lil bit fruity, he plays for the other team, he dances at the other end of the ballroom, this jobber theatrical, this jobber good with colors, this jobber gonna coordinate yo curtains wit yo cushions and that shit gonna look good! This jobber lifts shirts, this jobber on the down low, this jobber be a toilet trader, this jobber gardens uphill, this jobber packs fudge, he's a friend of Dorothy, he feels the love that dare not speak Its name, he loves to dance, he's of the Uranian brotherhood, he indulges in the French vice, he has an antipathic sexual Instinct, he's fluent in Polari, he's a refugee from Sodom, he's on the wrong bus, he bats for the other team, he's temperamental, he's 'one them’ of if you catch my drift>>97286721You should update it to have a scenario where Gohan gets raped by piles of worms, futas, and futa worms.
>>97285892Some anon wanted me to clarify that Myth Maker isn't always on, so I did. v2.1 should be final. I'll check on the thread to tomorrow.
Previously on /slop/: >>97261394▶ Thread Task: Moonlight▶ Generatorshttps://bing.com/images/create/https://sora.chatgpt.com/https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorhttps://civitai.com/Curious about local genning? Check out /g/'s stable diffusion OP or ask one of our friendly locals.▶ Perchance pastebin of generators and links:https://pastebin.com/XRGqaW4W (embed)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97285859Bing looks nothing like old or new Sora, it's just shit. If anything, the photorealistic plastic style Bing defaults to is more similar to the new Sora model.
>>97287454oops just realized you're talking about the GPT one on bing. I suppose it's alright, but the overall filter blocks too much. Same prompts that would work on Sora with no problem and blocked on the bing site, and you can't even use the full prompts anyway. Nah, it's garbage and microsoft can go fuck itself. I don't even know why they waste money on server space for this subpar service anymore.
>>97287443Z-Image Turbo on NightCafe website.
>>97287007Skogs basically full buffed Howler at just the cost of being able to speak in his head. No control, but could be severe annoyance. She wants to meet the being that made him.As for those ranged fighters, they are straight dead. Bleeding rose are the assassin herd. The soldiers are going to easily survive cause its mostly naked horrifying dangerous women using 5 inch claws or small knives attacking them. The minotaurs are heavily armored and will survive easy, but the gors will fold to tough breezes. My plan was: Skivare fights and badly injures Howler but she dies doing it. Losing the Beastlord breaks the brayherd morale and they flee. Having lost most if not all their ranged support the mercs grab Howler and retreat not realizing Lancel is alive. Andris brings drags him to town where he wakes up.Have some unusable images for the last entry.https://files.catbox.moe/a1520g.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/ec7ngk.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/q1ck5k.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/ms34pt.jpg
>>97287752>Skivareva fan
Thread #007 Countess EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97258877Previous Thread>>97131386Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTIONComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97275360Thank you and happy new year
>>97284014I know that one. Where do I deliver them? -Kakophoni
>>97287640We'd like any kindred you capture alive to be in torpor, staked and delivered to our mansion, then the Prince's staff can come pick them up.
>>97287679give me a few hours, I'll make some calls, any specific room in the mansion or just leave it on the doorstep in a coffin? -Kakophoni
>>97287717Of course you understand we're about to raid three different places in Bridgeport, and if we get our hands on the floozy before you, you won't get your reward.Then again, in the event we don't find or get her, the doorstep is fine, ring the bell and our staff will pick the coffin up, once we're done identifying her you'll be free to discuss your payment method of choice.
Government mandated emotional support pillows Edition>/40kg/ Community Linkhttps://rentry.org/40k-General>Community Links:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-40000-downloads/https://www.unitcrunch.comhttps://www.newrecruit.euhttps://wahapedia.ru>3rd Party Models Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/Q33bkBUh (embed)>Pre 10th Torrent:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
friendly reminder that the custodes admitted the grey knights are better than them and are closer to Him than they are
>>97287761umm ahktually they were insecure about the possibility of that fact and mostly just cope about it but given the golden jannies fail at everything they do and their failure is more or less the premise of the setting it's probably true
>>97287688You play tournament, right anon?It's the way to play after allAnd since it's the best way to play you'll play with the bestAnd for $44.99 you can have the BEST
>>97287745it lets titus skullfuck a couple of factions, a solo titus can go up against Jain zar, Lelith + wyches or Drazhar + Incubi and just win and there's not really anything they can do with interact with himHe's a unit that certain armies just 100% cannot charge, it's all the issues with Fights First only it's on a unit that hits and wounds on 2's and without the normal FF counterplayUltramarines also have perfect access to fallback and charge, meaning that Titus can always control when he is in combat. Imagine being Drukhari. You send your marine killers to kill some marines and Titus activates Tarpit.EXE and kills half of your incubi with 16 sustained hits 2+ 2+ AP1 dam 2 attacks, and cannot be killed so you can't venom reimbark. Certain armies just cannot interact with Titus meaningfully.
>>97287745titus solo can run at a brick of 6 BGV + a judiciar and kill 3, and then during the other player's turn (if they aren't running gladius) they have to choose between falling back from this solo titus and wasting a turn doing nothing or dying again because Titus will just do the same thing forever
Kharadron edition>Previously in the Mortal Realms:>>97261720 >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.
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>>97285934it looks like a parody but it's not
>>97287594It is a parody (of the extremely great mini it's badly based off of)But TWW secondaries don't know much about minis, sadly.
>>97287724It can't be a parody if it's literally the intended paintscheme, paypigger.
>>97287724adherence to its miniature isn't the problem
New Year Edition!>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and SplatsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97286867>TQSure, though I think any depiction of them would be pretty inevitably unsatisfactory. I personally like to think of them as some kind of a competitive omnipotent creator simulator where players create a (not real) universe, with even the most fundamental laws of said universe being malleable, with each player trying to impose their own vision on that world and with who's on the lead being determined by who currently has the biggest impact on the simulated world.
>>97287416This is is a reinvention of Dunsany's pegana.
>>97287446Okay. That does not seem particularly important. Also reinvention of Pegana would be more just saying that Games of Divinity are just actually messing with Creation.
Honestly if you can't make artifacts you are completely inconsequential to the setting as a whole.
>>97286867>Ever wondered what the Games of Divinity are actually?Diplomacy is my best guess, with something like Mario Party coming in second. We know from canon sources (SotM and Yu Shan iirc) that it has turns, and that you can make individual moves within turns, and that someone else can be make your moves/turns for you if you give them over and it's possible to have that matter.>>97287366desu the new captcha's turned me off posting a couple times last thread.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #591"All i want for Christmas is for Dark Magician Girl to materialize in my bedroom so i can summon her in face down ass up position, have sex with her, and end my turn" EditionPrevious thread: >>97191908Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97287098That depends. If it's the newest boxes and it has something meta-relevant, they'll typically go for ~$120. If it's something slightly older and not meta relevant, the price can be anywhere between $70 and $20 in LED9's case. It's all about demand + the knowledge that a lot of their cards are getting reprinted in tins.
>>97285559Sorry we have to kill all ritual decks because banning new cards may cause 0.001% loss of profit for company, better luck next time fucker.
>>97287260Christ this hobby is more expensive than I remember.
>>97287301The pull rates are actually decent compared to whatever time you're remembering and reprints drag those prices down kicking and screaming every year. Only people it's really expensive for is people that want to participate in the current meta.
>>97285724master duel is a monkey's paw game, by far the best card game simulator for any given tcg. but doesn't support anything but the 1 format.
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.
>Designing a setting for my campaign>Can't come up with the lore, because I'm not sure what the plot points of act 2 are gonna be>Can't come up with the plot for act 2, because I haven't decided on the loreDamn. I don't remember how I've used to get out of these situations.
>>97287591Act 2 is the Cossack Attack. Now write lore.
>>97287303Yeah, 2 of the 5 games I run use '24 rules and 1 of the 2 D&D games I play in does too. Pretty sure the next short adventure in a our rotating group another DM runs will use '24 rules too.
>>97287383This is the way.
Not necessarily an issue per se, but I have a bit of a weird situation. Just wrapped up the 2nd session with my party, it was a good time. My players were doing very plain work killing or driving off a group of maneating Wolves for the Wise Woman of a small river village on their way to petition the Baron for help back home with Goblin attacks, and they picked up a wiry young woman that wanted to go with them (this was my dumbass impulsivity.) What precedence does this new NPC have for being a (semi-)permanent party member? I put on a funny voice and tried to pull off the "over-eager little sister" thing. I'm worried that I might've just taken off the lid of cup of worms and that it might be too late.
Are all realms in your fantasy setting traditional kingdoms or do you like including other types of governments as well?
>>97285981There's only one realm that's played any significant role in the campaign so far and it's currently in a 3 or 4 way civil war between>The anointed emperor, in an alliance with the new class of bourgeoisie burghers, fighting to wrestle power back from regency council/parliament and reestablish absolutist monarchy, complete with his family's long-standing tradition of demon-worship. >The conservative nobles, who thought they'd firmly secured power during the emperor's minority and are now fighting to bring him back under the thumb of parliament. >The revolutionaries, determined that power should be in the hands of the common people (or at least themselves, as appropriate representatives of tehe common people). They're also broadly determined that the emperor, the nobility and anyone without sufficient revolutionary zeal should be sacrificed to demons, not because they're worshiping the demons of course, the demons are just useful tools.>The northern duke, currently in broad alignment with the rest of the nobility but from a culturally distinct polity and clearly tempted to either secede or conquer the entire empire for himself.
>>97286806Why'd you feel the need to try and continue a short four-post discussion that was already over?
>>97285981>all realms Unlikely. Based on late renaissance and early modernism so there's a lot of shifting monarchies, feudalism, city states, mercantilism and attempts at other models based on theological schisms with the not!pope like Breakers and Levelers. Plus what the Occident, Orient, Savage Lands and the New World are up to. In game variety wise this mostly plays out as different orientations of towns on the hex map and random encounters. Some of the more isolated areas end up being town councils by default with occasional interruptions by larger powers. The players haven't really struck out for any particular faction yet but having their allegiances and reputation preceding them will be more of a thing as the campaign progresses. >>97286806>If you want to argue about the moral compass of ancient political bodies there are better boards for than the thread about fantasy political bodies based on ancient political bodies Nigger you dumb.
>>97285981I hate Puckee more than you can imagine.
>>97286757No.
>gm said no theatrics or monologues >two guys leaveIs not being too loud that difficult for some of you?
>>97286668Or play a system with better combat
>>97273433>Hey anons wanna play a roleplaying game?>No roleplaying tho.> Wdym you won't play, are you guys faggots or smth?Just play monopoly at this point.
>>97286679OP didn't mention a system. You're suffering from phantom dnd syndrome. Many such cases.
>>97286716OP didn't say he was playing a roleplaying game.
>>97273433>GM said 'No fun allowed'>Fun seekers leave
