What can you do to make bandit encounters more immersive and interesting than the old ambush-fight shtick?
>>97349486Have the bandits be that small group who were drinking with them in the pub the night before?
>>97349486I had the bandits defend a choke point on the roads that was difficult to bypass; a bridge across a steep set of cliffs over an inlet. The long way was up through the mountains and would take an extra day of travel. They wouldn't stray far from their post and were vicious enough to kill if opposed, but wouldn't chase down anyone if they weren't attacked. The party:>Snuck around them at night>Killed them the next time through>Bribed their hireling then kill the rest on the third go>Staked out for the night and killed their night crew shortly thereafterThey've put a good dent in the enemy forces but it's coming to a head. They may need to confront the leader at the bandit fortress, else the bandits might branch out to the heroes' nearby settlement and take a prisoner or three.
>>97349486The bandits aren't as vicious as rumoured and have their own goals and problems. The bandits are arguing amongst themselves about an internal matter (breach of their code, missing gold, etc) and draft PCs in as neutral arbiters/jury (in return for letting them go unharmed)Bandits are already dealing with a third partyBandits are hunting a monster (even though they're bad guys they don't want a chaos spawn roaming the woods)Bandits are awkwardly babysitting a missing child: they don't hurt kids usually and don't know how to get this one home without endangering themselvesBandits are actually religious adherents demanding tithe with force: they've been misled by a devil masquerading as a saintBandits are scavengers who lure a large monster towards travellers and then gather dropped treasure from those who flee (or the dead)Bandit has a personal link to a PC (works well with veterans)Bandits aren't ambushers: they've taken over a mountain pass keep or fortified bridge. It'd be a siege to drive them out.
>>97349638>>97350461Either that or an over the top villain that mocks them Dr. Evil style
>>97349486Hire hungry samurai.
What are some fantasy and sci-fi movies you should watch to inspire your games and players?
>>97349847>there was an attempt to make it pozzed as fuck. There was a very strong push-back and that stopped the process. Then the cunts responsible simply left.>Right now, 1d6 is pretty much 1d4 sans two or three pagesSo, why can't the supposedly non-pozzed mods and admin restore those pages now...?> compared with 2d4, which is abandonware AND the cunt that owns it turned out to be twice as pozzed as the cunts behind 1d6, with no end of censorship until he got bored and site is now spammed to hell by random advertising botswelp
>>97336974>>97338237anon who posted the list here, like 1/5 of the movies on it are probably in the realm of wuxiabut being old movies they aren't as trope dense as modern wuxia content
>>97350230>restore itBecause those were some obscure memes and nobody has a copy. They simply didn't migrate it from 1d4 when they had a copyA bunch of other shit that got cut got restored, because people simply had copies on their own.
>>97350230>>97350589Consider this:They cut the entire original approved movies list, just because. Took monumental edit war and eventually a DDoS to make them reconsider.So considerting the level of damage anticipated and how it ended, I say it's workable.2d4 meanwhile started out as 1:1 repository, but then the dumb fuck who set it up went with a machete across the pages, slashing whatever he felt like it, and openly saying that fuck keeping old shit, time to update.Which is why 2d4 is now run by Korean spam bots, I guess
Here's a thing. Or two.https://files.catbox.moe/s0ua8g.jpg
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
>>97352066OP totally can, and probably is.
>>97352075Motherfucker that's no Brownie that's a Redcap, watch your ankles.
>>97352119hes got a broom tf he gonna do
>>97352169sweep you off your feet
>>97352057Good point. The Hobgoblin is not called the Yellow Hobgoblin, he's just Hobgoblin.
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>>97352529Anon is just fishing for (You)s
>>97352266Yeah I remember there are some wood elves there. Although I don’t know about the time period TOW is set in, but I assume elves living in a magical forest in a section of the Southlands would be around all the war back to at least the War of the Beard and probably much longer.
I just learned that Ubersreik is not in fact on the Reik River, and I am flabbergasted
Don't know if you remember me, I was posting about heraldic banners just before new years break... God god this is grueling, freehanding a textured flag like this is hell, doing both sides is gonna be hell, and I'm not even going to entertain actually trying to put a central chargeon this.
What's up with the big crossbow in the State Missile Trooper box? I thought maybe it was a crank or something to load the crossbow, but looking at it more it looks like a multishoot crossbow of something.
This game had such a kino setting. What is a good system to play a kung-fu RPG that involves a lot of punching?
>>97351124>/tg/ isn't one personcool, I never implied otherwise. i even said there may be multiple people shitting out threads. but you dont care, gotta defend these shit tier threads for some completely unrelated reason, right?
>>97349657It seems your sex is dumbass.
>>97344859>i am a heNa, you talk like a faggot so I'm going to use the faggot pronouns
>>97351199>gotta defend these threads for a completely unrelated reasonFor fuck's sake. DUDE. I AM BEING DEAD SERIOUS. You need mental assistance. This isn't some conspiracy. I'm defending the thread because it's on-topic. I have no ulterior motive other than to unravel why idiots like you are such spergs when you see an Xbox logo
>>97351222>It seems your sex is dumbass.
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>>97352413g0f1le /d/0tyrmV
>>97350792the ones i've found on scribd essentially are incomplete versions. i've known about other locations for the unfinished files for some time, but i am looking for the finalized versions. thanks anyway
Anyone got a link to Triangle Agency?
Humbly requesting 4AD stuff:Swamps of the Slithering Snakemenhttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/546123/swamps-of-the-slithering-snakemenThe Frightful Dozenhttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/382574/the-frightful-dozenThe Bone Cult of Tha'ar Talahttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/362933/the-bone-cult-of-tha-ar-talaLair of the Horned Beastmenhttps://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/362336/lair-of-the-horned-beastmenThe Tunnels of KendrasComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
requesting Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs for pathfinder second edition
The PCs must restore the power of the four crystals to defeat the Dark Lord. What should I base the four crystals upon, instead of the four elements?doubles decide
societysolitudespeculationcertainty
>>97326915FriendsMadeAlongWay
MurderRapeTortureFlower Arranging
MeatMetalPlasticSmoke
Head, throat, heart, and loin
What is the counterculture of 2020s, that could be used as the basis for a contemporary countercultural tabletop game?Take the World of Darkness for example, which was so grounded in the the counterculture of the 90s that it comes across as dated and strange today. How would you update the World of Darkness so that it better represents the counterculture of today?Nightmare Mode: Talk about more than just politics. There's more to rebellion against the status quo and the prevailing social norm than who you vote for.
>>97352277Yep.
>>97352131Law of averages. The image of success it's still straight, white and rich. That's your average millionaire, influencer, silicon valley cryto bro, etc.
>>97352221I would say real trads are basically reviled by the ruling class, in favor of brown economic conservatives. Real counter-culture though would be shit like accelerationists, racewarnow! niggas, conservationists or ecoterrorists, racists or race realists, etc. Good luck ever getting your game published using that sort of stuff though. I would say furries and goth are no longer counter-culture, so you'd probably have Wehraboo aesthetics, trench coats, more a return to 1930's to 1950's fashion.
>>97323111I hope you have an hour and 20 minutes at your disposalhttps://youtu.be/owCPrIEliZc?si=eQriZeiweMG22IOZ
>>97334255>Deltron 3030Top tier ref anon, never thought I'd see them mentioned on teegee of all places, maybe this place still has some teeth left in it.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #592"how the fuck is this deck still meta" EditionPrevious thread: >>97236634Most 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.
>>97350937This man has baited more imperms than Sera.
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>>97350405Is it true that you're not allowed to use dice as physical counters? some guy at my locals kept telling me that's illegal at regionals and YCS
>>97352437you must represent counters as multiple individual objects, you cannot use dice to represent multiple counters, and you can only use notes for reminders
I love master duel's solo mode, this game has so many cool archetypes I never knew existed
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.
>>97348428>calling me out on my retarded lies makes you a trannyPlease take someone's meds.
>>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.
>world's first 100% vibes based tabletop setting
>>97350740The only thing of value TC had was good concept art
>>97350517>chuddy secondaries that unironically watch 40k lore videos on youtubeshut up I like this background noise
>>97350829>You have Warred your final Hammer, Horus Heresy.
>>97350485>Jerusalem has a giant demon gate in itWhat did they mean by this?
>>97350740this looks like shit.
>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 Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3eComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97352399Talking about it, Lytek is a really weird god, specially by 1e's parameters.
>>97352414He was basically created to be a dude the Sidereals can mug the shit out of so they can steal the Exaltations. From a lore perspective, he makes sense as there's gods for everything in Creation and Exaltations wouldn't be an exception.If I hazard a guess, he got his role as memory-scrubber because new Celestials were having problems with their past lives bleeding over into their new incarnations.
>>97352447>If I hazard a guess, he got his role as memory-scrubber because new Celestials were having problems with their past lives bleeding over into their new incarnations>past lives bleeding over into their new incarnationsHe seems to have been a later addition to the lore considering earlier material.
>>97352599>He seems to have been a later addition to the lore considering earlier material.I mean more of his in-universe reason on why he scrubs memories, from a world building perspective he probably was added later
>>97352209You're an incredible faggot, holy shit.
Why dont people complain about Stormcast any more?
>>97331357Consider the oversized porcine
>>97350703Everything Games Workshop has put out for years has been "Wow, a couple of those minis are kind of neat...I'm never playing with those rules though"
>>97351082That's how it's always been
>>97350702I still think they look bad. When compared to every other AoS line, they're very lackluster and uninspired.
>>97302988The new slimmed down models actually look like decent fantasy paladins and are entirely serviceable, with some even possessing hints of SOVL, so there's not much to write home about. Thankfully the era of those embarrassing sigmarine monstrosities is long over.
Work in Progress, "Nobody screws with the Tank Police!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97352039Based
>>97351948thanks anon
>>97351003Worth it. Are you using enamels?
Did some work
>>97352242They look nice anon! But i very confused why you proonted bases for what looks like og minis?>he even drilled the melta gunmuh dick
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?
>>97351912GURPS treats Iron Age steel as "experimental"--purchasable only at extremely high prices, if at all. Only in the Middle Ages does metallurgy improve enough that steel becomes available in any random shop for purchase by adventurers.
>>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.
