>>97257145
>>97257023
Retard.

>>97258091
Yeah, it's not well-organized either. Sorry anon.

>>97259145
it's cool, the collection is great as it is
maybe a torrent? except I've never actually created one
the whole site is 3.4 GB on my disk, which is probably too much for catbox

>>97257145
What planet does John Carter of Mars take place on?

>>97259421
I know all the old JG material is also in the archive for OSR content. Highly recommend it!

>>97257658
It's moreso about how some negative qualities are nothingburgers. If you're not the face then ugly nets you a free positive quality, and shoddy doesn't mechanically affect certain types of gear, classic C7. I typically equip every starting character with flak armour that I've stacked 2 nega qualities on to be able to afford.

>>97255948
>though the rest of the economy is still really strange
When I once asked them about weapon prices in AoS: Soulbound (where multiple weapons with absolutely identical stats can have wildly different prices), they told me something to the effect that it's "on purpose, because weapons of different construction won't cost the same".
The fact that it's AoS, where the same shape of a weapon can be potentially made from a grand variety of invented materials of greatly varying costs (which would make fixed costs for any weapons wrong to have at all), seemingly does not enter the calculation.

>>97257162
There could be multiple votann specialties, like some beer drinking bikers prospecting on the surface, some nasapunk looking dudes tardwrangling them from space and when shit hit the fan they can take out huge goofy looking battle trains. But this is nu-GW and they're mentally unable to make armies with multiple distinct flavors.

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>>97257290
>instead we just got straight NASA and no punk
No, we did not even get NASA. We got 'NASA as envisioned by british people with no clue what NASA actually does,' trust. I don't even see a single instance of ghetto-rigged duct tape, and they still have most of their documentation! And that's just what they did to the Votanni, the Necromundan squats went in the bulbous soviet CCCP direction for their vehicles.

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Anons, are you gonna play Dark Heresy video game?

>>97260963
ChatGPT is good enough for 'I want a variation on this image'

>>97260986
Isn't chatgpt image-gen paid or freemium access?

>>97261019
Free up to a cap, so as long as you only do so many images a day it's all cushy.

My rogue trader campaign has been on the backburner for quite some time now but the quit days after christmas have given me some room to get back to explore the stars and acquire (steal) newfound treasures.

>>97258442
Retard

>>97260726
(2/?)
https://files.catbox.moe/fw5dtn.mp4
>start working on lore based on her idea, she starts complaining that I'm trying to 'overwrite her character'
>give her some things that are hard-no's for her idea, try to work with her on massaging her idea until it fits with the setting better
>she tells me to stop or she's out, I brush it off and make a note to try and accommodate as best as I can because I'm trying to run games over the course of months while balancing my job and my degree with it
>a few sessions later she admits she's spoiled herself on the entirety of the base-game's rulebooks and setting while I was skimming what I could when I could
>she's just outright trying to hijack the setting and write massive lore overhauls atp
>get so angry I spend literal days unable to think about the campaign without feeling my blood pressure shoot up
>she promises to not metagame and to only play as her characters would
>have to fuck off for work for a month while punching air as I let her go through the next mission/module with as little molestation as I can, push her to work on the text-chat home-scene roleplay since I can't do sessions for the month but do have the ability to sometimes respond to texts
>she stalls the entire month
>come back, continue on the 90s campaign while catching up on school
>she says that she'll be working on coalescing all the changes I made for the setting into a splatbook
>feel slightly relieved, decide I'm willing to not crash out since actually publishing the fan-conversion as a splat would be pretty fulfilling, and I probably can't do it alone

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>>97260909
(3/?)
https://files.catbox.moe/et4oea.mp4
>she doesn't fill out the character sheet I give her in roll20 (I gave it to her late, after she introduced the character), just rolls dice
>have zero clue what's in store, roll with it because sessions have to keep moving and I barely have time to DM between my job and school
>she's my friend so I place my faith in her that she won't metagame and that this won't be some batshit "she already knows everything hypergeometric and is indestructible" mary-sue shit
>halfway through the game, during a heavily-scripted combat sequence in the module, she breaks out some insane mary-sue shit
>almost punch my monitor because she whispers some sequence-breaking 'hints' in my ear ("high enough voltages will technically travel through rocks to hit their intended organic targets :)")
>drink another 3 beers while I calm down and just ignore her for the sequence to play out properly, put both her characters in uncon and kill a story-centric NPC while the rest of the group races to figure out what's wrong
>she has to pick up another job before next session, work with her and everyone else to try and have everyone available during major plot reveals
>have to start postponing sessions and shift them around for this, tell her that to keep things moving I may have to NPC her characters while she's gone during boring parts
>she tells me its unlikely I'll 'play them right' but begrudgingly lets me as long as I don't lore-break them
>meanwhile in whispers she doubles down and threatens to leave the campaign if I get 'too autistic' and forcibly overwrite her schizo-lore for her characters
>spending time between sessions screaming "I'm gonna fucking kill myself" into my pillow now
>for the sake of not making the group crashout and having things fall apart, do my best to follow what 'makes sense' for the characters

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>>97261001
(4/4)
https://files.catbox.moe/i44lky.mp4
>"has (x) thing already happened?"
>tell her "yes" and that her character had to leave an area for a scripted-sequence that sets up a major plot-reveal in the module to occur
>she starts yelling at me because her character should have stayed put (medical-focused 'automaton/golem' working with a DG cell that's got 3 heavily-wounded members in separate hospitals, btw)
>go back to wishing I had more beer/craving the sweet release of a caffeine-induced heart-attack
>postpone next session in the 90s game again because she has to stay at her job longer than expected
>have a 'flash-forward' cutaway to another shotgun scenario I came up with for the rest of the group so we don't get bored
>tell her I can retcon her Nephandus character into the scenario at anytime if she joins late
>she cusses me out because her character is still angry at the GMPC
>check the text chat that was supposed to fix that issue in the storyline
>last thing that happened in the scene was her continuing to try and introduce more of her lore-tism, seemingly to try to make things more difficult for me, and me trying to use the GMPCs/NPCs skill checks and resources to resolve the diplomacy-sequence
>she hasn't responded in 3 months
I have had to physically restrain myself from buying a plane ticket just so I can personally throttle her more times than I can count and now I'm fucking micrometers from flipping a coin on if I should cuss her out for her being mad I won't give her the GMs-Girlfriend-Treatment. My own GM regularly cusses me out because I complain to him and he tells me "It's my table, you should just tell her 'no.'" (he's right but I'm doing my fucking best to include all my friends and not sketch people out by kicking people over slights they might consider 'mild'

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> 5 players 4 of them were brick walls that never speak or react unless spoken too and even then it was mostly hemming and hawing to just say "ill do what the rest of you want to do"
>says they're bored but run away from every hook unless i lead them by the nose into combat
> got told once "im just gonna listen to my own music my character goes and sits away from the party"
> player joins plays one session drops without a word

i thank god for the current gaggle of players I have. If i kept meeting jackasses like that i might have just quit ttrpgs as a whole

>>97260726
>>97260909
>>97261001
>>97261040
Okay first off, that isn't a woman and you should have realized this when he insisted on using text in a voice game. Second: holy shit, how is anyone this spineless? You should have kicked him before the first session but instead you just caved to him every time and even relented when he threatened to leave. And no, he isn't your friend, friends don't treat each other like he's treating you.

>>97253079
>>97253789
It is... Curious.
Multiple different stories from radically different sources echoing one another. Just enough matches. I cannot wholly trust any one of the dozen or so stories delivered but...

Perhaps this is hell.

Were it that I could go back to hiding in my hole a few weeks ago. Or gone with my gut instinct when all this kicked off and started walking Westward.

It is out of my hands. All I can do is offer my council once- if- the last of the invading war party is dealt with. More the fool I am to walk the path of compassion. Ironic.

Again though, my thanks blood.

>>97255571
The Catalogue of this little chronicle should prove useful to some. And hey. Suppose I lived up to that desire to be a very budget Nos. Like to think I look the part now with the Loup damage.

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Attention to everyone: Stay away from the Austin-Texas Area. A group of hunters have devised some sort of light-based weapon that has devastated a cohort of our Neonates and Ancillas and left nothing but ash in their wake.

>>97255436
The bastard we interrogated was more knowledgeable about the history of the NSDAP than a typical US neo-nazi. He believes The Protocols is a forgery - even though he agrees with it - the US didn't enter WW2 just to fight anti-semitism, the nazis admired Henry Ford who published anti-semitic shit and so on.
We immediately, correctly suspected he belonged to a more European flavor of organization.

Here's what we have:
A) "Bridgeport Citizens Volunteer Militia" (our nickname), typical US far right "rifle association" madmen
B) European-style far right social center. This is not your friendly neighborhood community center, this is some two dozen neo-nazi squatters in an abandoned, illegally occupied warehouse. In exchange for sleeping in that shithole they do "activism", i.e. protests, violence, theft, racketeering...
C) Your alley of drug dealers giving fentanyl zombies their fix

It's a triangular commerce, where:
- the militia trains, radicalizes and recruits the "best" from the social center
- the social center makes sure the money from the dealers arrives on time, they also bully citizens out of their money (THE ASSHOLES HOPED TO ROB OUR MANSION AND OTHERS ON XMAS)
- the dealers extract money from fentanyl zombies (and we speculate, get hostile kindred some bodies)
- the money goes to fund the militia's weapons and activities


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>>97255436
>>97260690
The neo-nazi seemed to be legitimately clueless about the existence of kindred. They probably don't know they're being used by them. I can imagine food and drinks contaminated with vitae as a way to ghoul them.
Militias are typically armed to the teeth and paranoid about being infiltrated, which is why we'd rather solve the issue the Brujah way than the Toreador way, this time.
To count some heads, House Venus is a coterie of 6 quasi-ancillae, plus one quasi-Elder with her fledgling. They can add drones, "land-drones" (robot dolls), and military grade-ordnance for example anti-materiel rifles, fully-automatic shotguns, LMGs, explosives, etc. as force multipliers.

>>97260740
If you need bodies or weapons, I will provide some if required. I have a total of 50 Cauldron-Born, 10 various kindred and multiple crates of weapons available. -Kakophoni
there's no trick, Kakophoni is genuinely offering help, most of the weapons were taken from the Sabbat warparty that invaded his haven

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Rate my patchwork. Just wanted to reconcile Warhammer FB with Dragon Age and some cool Northern settings (Symbaroum, Skyrim, etc.). This is a map of the first version, now I changed it to more traditional Eurasian view (because it is basically two Europes symmetrically mirrored in the first version): Ferelden went to Skyrim, Orlais and Free Marches went to Italy and Spain, Tevinter, Anderfels and Nevarra went to North Africa.

The idea is borrowed from Symbaroum: there was an ancient mighty empire of humans with epic architecture (Elden Ring, Dark Souls), which built three extended laboratory/research areas (yellow dots), then those areas were contaminated, the empire fell, rest of its people migrated to "Tevinter Imperium", and after that elves from "Ulthuan" seized the research areas to restrict access to them and to results of experiments. Then new semi-barbarian people migrated from "Westeros" and created current civilizations.

Which "grounded" settings also fit to this picture?

>>97255551
Try to thumb through "Dolmenwood - Campaign Book", they have pretty nice suggestions for filling a map.

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>>97260914
>because it is basically two Europes symmetrically mirrored in the first version
So Dragon Age is basically Europe.

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>>97260911
The free version is super bare bones, doesn't even have private articles.
I'd probably get the first paid tier and if I reeeaaaally like it I may go to the next one.

>>97261121
You're pants on head retarded if you're paying for gamified SaaS when there are free offline programs that do the same thing.

>>97256593
I only sign in on odd numbered days, I play the absolute bare minimum I can to harvest as many daily rewards as possible.
I had no idea it was even down

>>97260636
Do you play paper magic or are you just forcing yourself to play MTG for punishment?

>>97260745
Paper
I am holding out hope for MTG in general but anything more than the absolute bare minimum investment is far too courteous for wotc in 2025.
I'm sitting on like 25 mythics and 40 rares atm, about 45k gold.

>opponent scoops before I even have a chance to choose to keep or mulligan
>did you have fun this match?
why?

whats a decent dragon deck for standard?

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>>97260035
Thanks for saving everyone. Now we are off to squander our freedom and not plan ahead so we can have a sequal where we use you again. Also don't ask for for anything and this job that doesn't pay is a honor. kek.

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>>97257521
>including no less than three anime shows where the so called Demonlord is a pretty swell guy/girl
>Can't name a single one
>Overlord

>>97258295
>Disgaea demons aren't evil
You are a fucking secondary

>>97258036
Overdad is a straight-up hero, it's Overlad who's actually evil.

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>>97257447
>has to specifically exclude succubi
That's like saying "few animes have animal people if you don't count catgirls." I'm gonna go ahead and accept your concession.

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>>97260244
>>97259551
Kowalski is a typical German name.

>>97260348
based retard or Kurwa Kowalski trying to throw us off his trail

>>97260719
Kowalsky (Slavish/Polish)
Kowalski (German)
Or give you a hint that he is possible a communist from East Germany that is a Putin fanboy.

>>97258089
Thanks for the compliment! It's missing final highlights for the bronze and blue but I am quite happy with them at this level.

>>97260946
No, I am Polish. It's the opposite of what you said. ski is a Polish suffix. Sky from what i've seen is a whitewashed Slavic suffix.

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>>97258145
>>97258986
>Why is this?
Mordheim's item balance philosophy is pretty alien to the balance sensibilities of the modern tabletop gamer, so it warrants frequent reiteration of what options are reasonable takes for a starting warband, and what options are best picked up later on in a campaign. For example, heavy armor is intentionally overcosted for the bonus it provides as it's meant to be a late-campaign vanity item, a gold sink for warbands who are doing exceptionally well (this isn't just hearsay, Tuomas has repeated as such in multiple interviews).

Don't get discouraged by the optimization vs customization thing - there's a pretty wide gulf between "minimum reasonable degree of optimization to not get your ass kicked" and "minmaxing the soul out of the game", and in-between there is plenty of room for customization while not playing a warband that's going to be so bad it's not fun to play. My starting Reiklander warband for example doesn't have a single club among them, but they do have 7 swords, a couple longbows to mix things up amongst my marksmen, and nice pair of dueling pistols for my leader making him an extremely juicy target - all things that aren't optimal, but my warband is still plenty playable and has done reasonably well in my local campaigns because I've still hit the "floor" for optimization - maxed out heroes, 9 model minimum for rout tests, etc.

>>97249229
>I don't know HOW to play. Like, what is a game supposed to even look like?
You start with a single scene, go through it like you where reading a book or playing a game, if a conflict comes up resolve it using the games rules that will usually involve rolling dice in some capacity. Maybe look into a rules light game where "rules as written" aren't such a big priority, consider one page games which will be easy to learn and teach your group one such game I like is "fudge in a nutshell" see: https://files.catbox.moe/p8ch99.pdf

>>97255650
It's a matter of resolution mechanics unification. Old d&d was sort of all over the place in this regard and can be a little confusing for people approaching for the first time. And i say that as a guy that was initiated with a becmi starter set, it's not a deal breaker and takes a moment to be figured out but given the choice why would you pick something, even if slightly, more convoluted?

>>97249229
Just watch some Critical Role or D20 liveplays and do what they do

>>97257874
>why would you pick something, even if slightly, more convoluted
An abiding love of the byzantine.
A quirky adherence to quaint precedence.
A learned aversion to unified resolution systems.

The first two are just a matter of taste, but the third one is a considered rejection of the desire to make all things part of a monolithic structure. It can lack robustness or specificity or become over burdened with exceptions or edge cases or conditions to the point that it may as well be divided into separate systems anyway. It can also lead to same-ness between classes which can lead to accusations of "it's role play to roll play" but let me elaborate.

I'm not a big fan of modern D&D but iirc 5e saving throws are roll vs difficulty, bonus for ability score, extra bonus for some based on class, characters can improve ability scores while levelling which minimally affects save through the bonus. I much prefer the older system look up save on class based table that improved with level, apply ability score modifiers. It's just a game but I don't see the new inherently making the game better, though I don't see it making it worse either.

On the other hand, I dislike the current lock picking rules which to me greatly detracts from the flavour. Even though the dice rolling is nothing but random number generator vs target value with only the dice rolled and the target value differing, the different mechanisms present before 3e led to something like thief feeling different to other classes in AD&D and Basic. Sure, I am supposed to roll play but I thoroughly enjoyed and continue to enjoy the differences in how things were done without designers feeling the need to try and simplify and unify at the cost of flavour. At the same time I've played and enjoyed systems where everything can be as simple as the old WEG d6 system (ability relevant to task determines size of your dice pool, difficulty class set by GM) so it's not as if my aversion is all consuming.

>>97261336
*it's role play not roll play

>>97258892
>powergaming social retards who either never say a word, or only communicate by being the loudest one talking over everyone else about their hyperfixation that nobody else gives a fuck about.
Sounds exactly like D&D

Yet another problem Fate solved.

i´m happy with my playgroup of friends. no one is perfect but we found somewhat of a middleground between min maxing powergaming autism and basically just playing house with sparkledog oc´s

>>97258955
>Playerbases

I play games with my friends. Am I to assume you are a friendless asshole who has to turn to the "playerbases" because you're so unbearable to be around that you have to game with people who don't know you personally? Sad, but many such cases.

>>97258892
Never had this problem, sorry your group is bad.

>>97259688
>Bronze Age feel, it is the same reason for why crossbows were treated as a black box tech.
They kinda break that up too, because they say people have triremes, but triremes weren't designed during the Bronze Age, they would have possibly biremes or just single row galleys. Plus they say the Realm uses triremes as warships when they should be using liburnae (which are technically biremes) and quadriremes/quinqueremes from the more advanced knowledge they have access to while keeping the Rome aesthetic. I feel like for more visual variety in ship type they could also have junks, to fit the Chinese aesthetics.
It could also be that they do have advanced sailing technology on them, but they just all look like triremes.

I'd like to play in a Solars in the Realm game at least once before I die. Why is it so rare?

>>97261065
Because if you go loud and flare Anima you will have to be hunted down until you're dead or you flee the Isle

>>97261300
You flare when you exalt. That's the whole fun of it.

>>97261065
You will turn into kill-on-sight persona nongrata in the moment when your anima glows a bit.
And contrary of D&D, rerolling and having spare characters is a hassle.

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Fuck these fiddly ass niggers

>>97260433
>they're just shitty humans
>while described as second only the space marines in their fluff
So, space marines are just above shit tier.

>>97261252
You are weak and your family is weak and your ancestors are ashamed

>>97261130
Frag grenades can be thrown. Rad grenades too, as can venom spheres if you're AL.

>>97260090
if 2nd requires 1 page of fixes, 3rd requires 3 pages of fixes at least. It's a more broken basic framework. 2nd's main problem was simply dreadnought lascannon points costs, rather than the core rules being garbage - and that's something that can be fixed without rewriting the whole main rulebook. But you have to trash the entire HH3 rulebook to fix it.

>>97260791
Wow, Shadow Lords really cannot go 5 seconds without being subversive.

>>97261054
I thought Pure Breed was a kind of universal thing the way the book wrote about it? If that isn't the case, yeah I suppose they would. It would still be the case that a Silver Fang could never really (by genetics) produce a child without some Pure Breed.

>>97261058
Except for the ones who aren't. They're home to the Judges of Doom, the giga-philodox camp who go full Judge Dredd on litany breakers. So even the subversive scoundrel Shadow Lords need to stick to the litany with their subversion, or face being judged and executed by their own tribesmen.

>>97261108
Well, the Litany has maybe 4 real tenants, and while making Metis is breaking the Litany it's also hard to prove since I imagine Garou don't believe in paternity tests.

>>97260791
Shadow Lord x Silver Fang romance where the Shadow Lord actually learns not to be a Werewolf kike when?

I literally cannot imagine roleplaying a character who is not literally me. Or an aspect of me

>>97259258
What if he made a female character to flirt with your male character?

>>97256921
Doesn't that look like a flooring inspector?

>>97256921
Yes. Mostly wizards and barbarians, or really weeaboo monks.

>>97256921
>so he can't try to flirt with me using his character.
YWNBAW