Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade D&D, its faithful modern clones, and content created for use with them. Later editions (2e and newer) should be discussed elsewhere. Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons played as intended by its creators from 1974 to 1983 — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching metaplots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started. We also have two excellent beginner guides created by Anons with feedback from the thread that you can check for help:>n00b DM's Guidehttps://pastebin.com/EVvt6P0B>n00b Player's Handbookhttps://pastebin.com/XALkXkV0>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Want to contribute to the thread but don't know where to start? Use this table.>1. Make a spell>2. Make a monster>3. Make a dungeon special>4. Make a wilderness location>5. Make an urban set piece>6. Make a magic item>7. Make a class, race, or race-as-class>8. Make a 4-10 room lair.>9. Make a trap>10. Roll 2D10 and combine
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!The White Lions editionPrevious Thread: >>97336552================================>BattleTech Introductory Guide & PDFshttps://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=400>Overview of the Major Factionshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/great-houseshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/the-clanshttps://bg.battletech.com/universe/other-powersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353312If this happens I’d really like generic card packs to make my own campaigns.
So what the hell was this thing? Cannot be a WarShip, right?
Are pocket warships able to fire their subcapital weapons on the ground? As in, would an Arondight be able to fire sub capital cannons at static targets or at hexes like artillery? Can AR-10 launchers be used as expensive missile artillery?
>>97353603the Bears dreadnaught or the WoB planet killer?
>>97353693the subcabital weapons are usually in the nose>or at hexes like artillery?artillery isn't direct fire
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.
>>97349724cards came later today with my shinies
>>97351506I was gonna say, I only sent out playmats to people who I already had their info in my shipping label history, which means you either never got your box (which came first), or you were the 1 person who I sent out the box and playmat at the same time using different carriers earlier this week
>>97351336>waah waah you're miserable because you're calling me outNah, I've got a playgroup, a home brew system and countless art for my games. I told you last time you were spamming your shit, actually prove me wrong and I don't have a leg to stand on. It's not hard to do if your game is actually getting the traction you pretend it has.Still haven't answered my question btw: how do you cope samefagging this hard?
>>97351424And yet, you still waste your energy by shitting on somethin, which you clearly think would fail without your intervention, when you could be making something with that same energy.That is the definition of a loser.You want to kick somebody else.I am not even interested in your homebrew.Clearly it isn't interesting enough to keep YOUR attention.>>97353679I'm perplexed why nobody has just shown you a screenshot and told you to fuck off yet.Major beta energy.Low sperm count detected.Props for trying to fight an entire thread mind.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353709Speaking of a screenshot; here.
Rebellions in 40k usually happen on a single world, or within a very limited region, and are often isolated before they can spread.In Star Wars, the rebels are far weaker than the Empire, but because hyperdrives are easy to obtain and relatively safe, they can carry out guerrilla tactics. By contrast, the Imperium in 40k doesn’t have a rebel problem as severe as the Galactic Empire did, because warp travel is terrible and can't really do it without a Navigatorso if the Imperium ever figures out a truly safe form of faster-than-light travel, it would face horrific rebel problems all across the galaxy.
>>97345127A rebellion on a single planet isn't rebelling against the Imperium, but against the local governor. Leaving to continue their rebellion elsewhere makes no sense.
>>97348459>>97348924>samefag Why are trannies like this?
>>97348967 but left the world become an option
>>97345238A cynic might begin to wonder why the Imperium seems so unable to make technological progress and whether there might be an underlying cause...As if a buhjillion books haven't discussed specifically that at tedious length.
>>97352759Because the scientific method completely broke down and the art of constructing technology turned into a religion of praying for each and every nut and bolt on a vehicle. so that it takes decades to build a single tank.
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Exotic Cuisine editionPrevious: >>97304062Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97351100>small communities huddled near the power cables and the rest is just abyss of old unlit tunnels and compressed buildingsThis.
>>97350167It makes sense when you consider that there were basically no proper naval battles between the end of the Clone Wars and Endor and the Imperial Navy spent pretty much its entire lifetime doing nothing but counterinsurgency operations.
>their planet is literally one of the biggest shitholes int he galaxy>people still keep going there and trespassing You'd think it wouldn't be hard to keep to themselves.
>Oh, the group is going to play Edge of the Empire?>Hmm, what character should I make... Want to do something original and cool...>Hmm... Trandoshan Hired Gun (Heavy), yes. Turns out I was the retard who just reuses things he saw in other SW media all along.
>>97352383They have giant buzz saws bolted to the front instead of blasters. They were decommissioned and used by the planetary government to clear through the dense jungles of the moon.
Keep going edition >Previous Heresy: >>97332279>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.
>>97353583Indeed. As a legion allegedly they have a theme of extremes, beautiful grace to compensate savage darkness...but it's all undone by their Primarch, who is not only literally fucking perfect and beloved of everyone, but is also prescient and knows he's literally invincible until he meets Horus.Not "unkillable". Unkillable implies he can be defeated. No. In-fucking-vincible.So he's handsome, smart, noble, liked by all, flies and sees the fucking future. Meanwhile, there's Mortarion. His skill is being stinky.Even Valdor likes him "despite his own efforts to the contrary".>>97353629For all his foresight, Captain Camanio should've watched his mouth
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>>97353387Old mkIII is so kino nu-mkiii looks so ugly
>>97353583Traitor faggot detected, opinion rejected.
My game tomorrow got cancelled.I wanna kill space marines so fucking bad
Goblins have existed in folklore for centuries in various forms, but where and when was it decided that Goblins are green? in 1st edition d&d, thwey're described as having various skin shades, green not being specified or standing out among the.a lot of people assume warhammer, but spiderman had a green goblin before warhammer, so what the fuck
>>97353107she looks (girl)friend-shaped.
>>973519271. The First "Official" Mention (1140s)The earliest recorded use of the word comes from a monk and historian named Orderic Vitalis around 1140. He wrote about a demon named Gobelinus that haunted the area of Évreux in Normandy, France. At this time, a "goblin" wasn't a race of small green guys; it was more like a specific, named ghost or spirit.+12. The Folkloric Roots (12th – 14th Century)The term transitioned from Medieval Latin into Old French as gobelin and finally into English around the 1330s.Original Vibe: They were originally "household spirits"—mischievous, invisible beings that lived in your walls, bumped furniture at night, and were generally more like poltergeists than soldiers.The Cousins: They are closely related to the Germanic Kobold and the Greek Kobalos (meaning "rogue" or "knave").3. The Literary "Re-Invention" (1872)For centuries, goblins were just vague "fairy-folk." The person who really "invented" the modern idea of goblins as a distinct, subterranean society was the Scottish author George MacDonald in his book The Princess and the Goblin (1872).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353412Whether or knot GW drew from the Hopkins, its folly of the highest order to ignore the warham goblin.
>>97353422aren't warhammer orcs ALSO green? their faction is literally called greenskins.
>>97353422chat GPT-ass answer
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.
And finally, Denmark as been added. 12 Units for the moment, mostly Characters and Specialists. I have to clean up the weapon section in it, the Butter Broker and Eugene Warming are unfinished as well, but otherwise its playable.
Also, during a discussion last evening I was reminded of Two Years of Vacation, one of my favorite Jules Verne novel. I thought for a moment that we could make a Lost Boys mini-faction out of it, but it could also be a simple profile for the Lost Men? This has also sent me into a Barenstein Bear situation, I swear there was a French animation shows from the late 80s I used to watch all the time, and all I can find are "the Story of 15 Boys", which is an American animation based on the novel and I swear I recognize some parts but not others, and there's no way my 6~7 years old was watching this in English...
>>97349916Neat. Will the Alderman be able to be recruited alongside the mercenary businessman?>>97349940>old timey electrical stationhttps://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/French-School/411603/Gallery-of-Machines-at-the-Munich-Exhibition.htmlhttps://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/French-School/57035/The-French-Electrical-Machinery-Gallery-at-the-Universal-Exhibition-of-1900.htmlA bit too close to the 20th century for these, but that's what I've been able to find.>>97349958>Denmark addedAwesome. What will be their lore?
>>97350012Is this the version you remember or just the American one in French?https://youtu.be/MUR1Oc2A4UUWhile we're on the topic, I remember some sort of Osamu Tezuka era looking anime about a barbarian boy in the Ice Age. There was a pet bear, some sort of ice witch, and the climax was a bunch of cavemen throwing torches at a mammoth made of a blizzard. That's Agartha-ish enough for me to bring it up. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>97349940>Old Timey Electrical Stationhttp://www.sparkmuseum.com/LIGHTING.HTMThe Gramme Dynamo, A.K.A: >"El mundo físico, 1882 "Máquina dinamo-eléctrica Gramme - tipo de tallerLooks to be the closest DC generator to when Agartha takes place and also fairly prominent at the time.If we're willing to use things that came out in 1884 exactly, which we generally are from what I recall, then Edison's "Long Legged Mary Anne" seems the best option>later renamed the "long-waisted" Mary-Ann out of modestyThere are better quality images on the site but here's one I found of it in use by humans instead of just in an orthographic technical drawing
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97353046Perhaps.I do dislike that her light parts are skin-tone...
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>>97330128Neither.I prefer scattering around fairytale style talking animals; I don't tend to explain them, but at a push they'd be forest spirits or a manifest genius loci, or the result of magical tampering.>Talking fox tries to sell you junk>Go on a quest for the "King of the Mice", who is just a regular sized talking mouse with a tiny crown>Barnyard cat and retired wizard's familiar is sole witness to a murder, but cannot legally testify, due to still being a cat.
>>97351691We get it, you're brown.
Composite Critter editionPrevious >>97320851>Basics Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/GWjTU9Uv>Anon's Locals Survival Guidehttps://pastebin.com/xXp5jShL>Fanmade PC simhttps://pastebin.com/u6aKrBSg>Official Mobile sim (Release Date TBA)https://www.digimon-alysion.com/en/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97353611the "and" means it has to be both
>>97353616that's a shame
>>97353611Many of the Agumon variants are Dinosaurs (06, Expert, Fake Expert, Bushi, X, Snow)Original Agumon, Black and Black X are Reptiles
>>97353611>>97353653is this secret tech for Omni?
>>97353665I'm assuming it was asked in relation to Dinomon
>30 years>bestselling book series of all time>world's most famous fantasy setting>still no (official) tabletop RPGlolwut
>>97345999That's pretty much the crux of the whole Rowling fiasco. She just sits online all day and night and picks fights with terminally online twitter troons. If she just shut the fuck up already we could get back to watching wizard movies at Christmas again.The rest of us normal people cannot give a flying fuck because 99% of humanity >already do not give a shit about some author's thoughts and opinions on anything. They just like the books/movies. Fuck the person behind the curtain. >Do not give a shit about the trans argument one way or the other. Nobody cares some freak on twitter demands endless sympathy, or was horribly insulted. Hardly anyone actually interacts with them and do not give a fuck about their thoughts or feelings either>Just want to be left alone about their goddamn entertainment. No one is watching kids movies because of some show of support for a political movement in the UK. They just want the fucking fantasy escapism. Drawing people into twitter political shit is the OPPOSITE of fantasy escapism
>Hermione's attempts to radicalize the house elves being a running joke>Dobby celebrates freedom in one book, is retconned into being a mental retard among his kind for foolishly craving freedom from indentured servitude in the next>Hook-nosed Goblins running the banks>all the characters of un-bri'ish heritage have the most stereotypical names imaginable>JK has the audacity to say "hErMiOnE cOuLd Be BlAcK" after giving her the most bri'ish name on earthShe was always a hack who catered to children. She gets some credit for getting kids into reading, but as for her work's lasting value and merit?We don't all worship at the alter of Dr. Fucking Seuss and the deep mysteries of the Whoverse. Nobody's asking for Horton Rolls a D20.Not every book you read needs to be a part of your personality.
>>97347048>>97347065It doesn't make a lot of sense for American wizards to live under the noses of muggles like they do in England and France. You would think there would be a lot more wizard towns completely hidden away out west, in the rockies and in the Canadian great planes where no one is ever going to find them.
>>97353620>Dobby celebrates freedom in one book, is retconned into being a mental retard among his kind for foolishly craving freedom from indentured servitude in the nextIsn't that just the fate of the Br*tish
>>97348821Beyond that, they can open a shop or a pub in Hogsmead. That is pretty much it. Even the books mention that landing work after school is a challenge for most wizards.
For discussion of D&D 3.0e, 3.5e and D20 OGL> Toolshttps://srd.dndtools.orghttps://dndtools.one/https://d20srd.orghttps://www.realmshelps.net/> Indices> 3.5https://archive.burne99.com/archive/4/http://web.archive.org/web/20080617022745/http://www.crystalkeep.com/d20/index.php> 3.0http://web.archive.org/web/20060330114049/http://www.crystalkeep.com:80/d20/rules3.0.php> 3e/3.5 Book PDFsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>973030823.PF or OSR/adjacent.5e occupies an awkward middleground for me. If I want something streamlined with a bit of character customization for modern sensibilities, I would go lighter than 5e and probably pick Worlds Without Number.If I want more mechanical depth in exchange for prep taking 20-30% longer, I would play 3.PF. It is crunchier, it is tedious getting key numbers pre-computed, but swapping out some feats can provide a lot of tactical variety to enemies. The skills can be a bit tedious and specific, but there are UA variations you can use to simplify.
>The DMPC that is a party favorite you've been traveling with for a year+ was actually a parasite tasked to kill someone important.>Have to put them down>They end up killing their lover during the fightFUCK
>>97299931does anyone know any good D&D 3.5e Dark Sun campaigns?
>>97348020>A DM has the right (some might even call it an obligation) to take a chainsaw to content that doesn't fit their setting or campaign. Polymorph spells are a gamebreaker? Declare that the 'rules of magic' in the setting just don't work that way. Mind-control magic can't be used to bypass entire plots if it doesn't exist (except in hostile hands as a plot device).Problem is you need to do it to a good chunk of spell list. And considering how many spells WoTC churned out it's a fucking pain in the ass.
>>97353612>Problem is you need to do it to a good chunk of spell list. And considering how many spells WoTC churned out it's a fucking pain in the ass.Start with core, then make splat spells opt in not opt out
How much would/should changing the default setting from High Medieval to Late Bronze Age change the game? For example, lowering AC across the board to simulate the lack of general armour. How much would that affect balance?
>>97352271Here, for example, in the Roman period steel swords are listed as costing four times the normal cost, assuming that they are available at all.
>>97352157Glass was invented well before that, though. And for most of the iron age, the use of glass was the same as in the bronze age. So why is "large glass objects" being listed as a technology that appears in the iron age?
>>97352271No one is denying that steel existed before the 19th century. I think you might be reading something into my comment that isn't there. The picture I'm responding to claimed that the "signature technology" of the "middle ages" is steel. That's just total nonsense. The signature technology is certainly something relating to agriculture that I don't know enough about to identify. Maybe mills or some kinda plough.
>>97352271>>97352302Ah, now I see. You're trying to defend "why Gurps' bronze age system is good enough." I'm talking "facts about the bronze age."Sure man--gurps is fine. Its historical take is pretty bad, but it's perfectly servicable.
>>97351007Hey I remember that map. Cool to see it come together anon.
existential edition >Chess websites, tools, videos and books:https://rentry.org/vxdsw7k5>Calendar:- Tata Steel | January 16th - February 1st- Speed Chess Championship Finals | February 7th - 8th- Prague International Chess Festival: Masters | February 25th - March 6th- Chesscom Global Championship | March 14th - April 26th- Reykjavik Open | March 25th - 31st- FIDE Candidates Tournament | March 28th - April 16th- European Individual Chess Championship | April 7th - 19th- Lichess Spring Marathon | April 18th- Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland | May 3rd - 10thComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97349789kino. ty
I got fucking Traxlor'd yesterday...
Never resign!
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congratz
Stop looking at fantasy settings and its cultural dialogue through contemporary utilitarian lenses. Your present reasoning and thoughts are a direct result of sociocultural narratives, they're not objectively reasonable or the apex of human thought.
See how he can't help himself? He thinks anyone gives a shit about his dumbass books LOL
>>97353642And you don't have a valid opinion on that.Which I have now readily demonstrated for all and sundry.You bleating repetitive homo.
>>97353656Yep, you're not a mythographer.
>>97353656You are making these zoomers seethe
>>97353658Yep, and you're a gay baby who got upset that I like my games to be full of rape and incest.And you're lashing out because I dared display a point of pride, which is something you have none of.You cannot reveal any part of yourself, because that would require you to defend something.And whatever you are, clearly there is not much worth defending.I am a based mythographer.And you are a rat-faced baby-fucker who needs to go back to r*ddit.
