Holiday cheer editionPrevious:>>97223714Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqSeasonal TQ:>How do you deal with friends&family absolutely resistent to any form of game teach?>Will anon repeat his autistic data gathering endevour this year?Actually interesting TQ:>How important is winning to you? Almost noone is a mustwin-tourneyfag, but we all tend to like games we are good at more, conciously or subconciously.
>>97272792It's over
>>97272792Looks like someone made a video response just for you:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmtIaTye40I
>>97273246No one wants to hear you whinge, bollocks.
>>97273246>>97272792Please refrain from giving these "people" internet (you)s
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Is it a good advice for game masters who want to run campaign in the "exotic" place instead of generic "coast of swords" clone?
>>97273634>"maybe don't go full nazi on blacks?"The irony here is that the Mwangi Expanse is the only place where you will find an honest-to-god Hitler in the game. It's the God-Child, Waika or whatever, who is worshiped as a Sun God and ardently states that, "all whities need to get dashed into the ocean and incinerated."It's very telling how Paizo was perfectly comfortable doing a BLM Revolution in Sargava completely off-screen and without any sort of follow-up besides "everyone's happy and hopeful for the future now," and Black Hitler was not only allowed to continue to exist, but presented as like, this awesome threat with no clear answer.
>>97273713You're trying to twist good advice into something that you can be mad at, anon. You're a martyr in search of persecution. When asked what you're rebelling against, you respond "what have you got?" It's pathetic and you shoulda grown out of it at 15.
>>97273686"Characters should not be surprised by their own daily lives even if they seem surprising to the players" is not at all conveyed by that text. I suppose it's sensible advice but it seems basic to the point of being patronising.>>97273791Maybe it wouldn't get twisted so readily if it was written clearly in the first place.
>>97273791Oh hey, here we go again with the moralizing.
>>97273836>Maybe it wouldn't get twisted so readily if it was written clearly in the first place.don't blame others for your lack of reading comprehension.
Writing General: 'festive' editionWelcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.There's a discord for writers herehttps://discord.gg/6AwKHGFThe previous thread can still be found in the archive here>>96644454And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97263928>Inserts clip from As Good As It Gets
>>97263928Could be worse. I can only write >Trash goblin>Monster in human skin who delights in the suffering of others (thanks mom for the endless inspiration)
Happy New Year, anons! May 2026 be the year we all finally get published! Or, you know, for some of us at least be the year we actually finish our novel.
>>97273744>May 2026 be the year we all finally get published!I've been writing this into my to-do list for half a year.Good luck anons. We all gonna make it.
I have pocket money to spend.Who are the surviving toy soldier manufacturers still in operation on this fair isle?From Carlton to Broxtowe, Ashfield to Rushcliffe, show me some production houses still limping on.
>>97270983Where those swords originally sculpted for an orc kit or something? They seem decidedly out of place amongst all the rest there being well made and in good condition.
>>97270801What a stupid fucking thread, could figure a heap of it out for yourself if you weren't a complete fuckwithonestly the list of exceptions is shorter than the ones based elsewhere
>>97271526The value of asking a hobby community rather than google is to get preferences, recommendations and reviews from interested parties, rather than LLM summaries.
>>97270847I came here to post Ramshackle and you've already done it.
>>97271611then if you value that community you should respect it by contributing more to the OP besides one-sided begging
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to first-decade, Gygaxian 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.
>>97273084Welcome back!>How do you guys track all the player run businesses and NPCs they enconter over the course of the campaign in a convenient and efficient way?Pen and paper? Not sure what you mean here.>Special retard question: would you allow your players to have them or their retainers use their round to "forcefeed" another player a health potion?If the feedee is unconscious, yes. If he is up and fighting, lol no.>And in a more serious way: how do you let players control/influence the actions of their retainers?With loyalty checks. I've recently discovered the tables for obeying orders from WRG and they're based, I might start using them some day. Basically roll high = charge in, roll low = run away, and roll average = obey orders. Picrel.
>>97273084Use ACKS for market checking/turn over.Also, you control henchmen, they are NPCs
>>97273161Thanks, very cool table indeed! >Pen and paper? Not sure what you mean here.Yeah you're completely right. In my 5e campaigns before (which I kept quite sandboxy) I've used RPG notes for android to track events, NPCs etc. Now running my first bx campaign I just do my daily tracking and strict timekeeping but simply losing the overview of all the NPCs involved and having to flip through all my notes when they pursue some of the NPCs for example. The business part is done separately and updated with the players during downtime. I just wondered what handy ways you guys use but I guess I should keep it simple and have some written NPC records at hand.>>97273527Yeah you're absolutely correct, as well.I was probably too soft after our long break. It was quite ironic though, my ironman player who's been there every session and leads with a level 6 character still is shit scared after their last dungeon fiasco in the ancient red dragon lair found himself and the small group of few players and retainers but no mercs ambushed by a red dragon in the wilderness. The tank was heroically facing the monster while the ironman send his retainer to chug the dwarf down some health potions. I felt it wasn't right but I also didn't want to bumfuck them that hard after our long break...
>>97273084I like those small A6 papers you buy in bulk, library notes? They have a name but I'm blanking on it.I find them practical to move around, spread, give to a player, and so on. But my memory depends heavily on taking writen notes.
>>97273841That's a cool idea, could keep the info for the players that way, as well lol>>97273527P.S. thanks for the ACKS recommendation, can you specify what books/chapters to consult for that?
JUDGE! JUUUUUDGE!! YUGI'S CHEATING AGAIN!!
Is there a single card game that does not have faked market scarcity?
>>97270478https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expandable_card_game
>>97270558>FFG adding a rotation and FOMO limited releases because they can't manage to support 75 SKUs for one seriesIt's not fair bros I am not fighting some old fat turd over the fucking Devil Dino Deck for Marvel Champs only to be told to wait for a reprint
>>97270423Damn it, is he attacking the moon again?
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97260097
>>97273617that's literally one of the goal you can choose>>97273711>implying that if you have power an happy life would not be infinitely more easier to achieve
why do retards think that having power automatically makes you unhappy? and why do they think being weak will give them a fulfilling or happy life?
>>97273773oh, forgot pic
>>97273773the problem is they seem to think if they have the power or the protagonistship or whatever that theyll automatically be happy and wont have to do anything else, when its actually fairly common for a protagonist to be fuckin miserable for various reasons, and also that the more power you have the more lonely you can end up feeling and whatnot, theres a reason theres so many stories of powerful people pretending to be ordinary people to get a life that makes them happy, is power nice, yes yes it is, can it make your life easier, yes, can it help you to achieve what you want to achieve, yes it can, does power alone make you instantly happy, not really no, unless youre a psychopath or smth who derives pleasure from enslaving and raping people or just generally having power over the lives and wellbeing of others
>>97273827you are making a lot of assumptions here, all wrong
There's a board devoted to tabletop games where 99.9% of the users have never played a single session of a game in their lives.
>>97273328Cool, what board is that?More importantly, why are you posting here not there?
>>97273422>Cool, what board is that?look behind you
>>97273328What's truly scary is that when you point this out, these gameless creatures throw a tantrum and accuse you of harming the board in some way.
>>97273328And yet, their threads are more fun than the whiny pathetic losers who contribute nothing but screeching "WHAT SYSTEM WHAT SETTING AUUUGH" at anything they can't identify as a hyper-specific session.
>>97273328sounds fun. noobs always got the best ideas
>Everyone points out that "Le demons are not evil" was a huge trend>Can barely remember any media that doesnt' have not-evil, not-succubus demons>The first that came to mind was devilman and they are still dicks thereWhat is with this weird fauxtrarian bullshit
>>97257546My apologies. I don't play D&D because I am better than you.
>>97273673Most of your post was about anime, that's why that anon said that most japanese terminology is rounded down to "demon"That's why you get stuff like>He's the greatest magician and thus they called him The Demon Lordwhen the original is "Great Mage">This town accepts demons like elves and dwarveswhen the original is "magical people">Odin/Thor/Krishna/angels being called demons in MegaTenwhen the original is "mystical beings"This mistranslation comes from the original Dragon Quest which was very poorly translated but still became the go to reference for people wanting to translate terminology that first popped up there. Nothing in anime should be considered the same as we understand as demons unless they go to a christian hell, which happens some times.
>>97273799>your postNot mine, I'm just correcting your misconceptions >in anime Again, Jeet May Cry isn't an anime. It's a western-made bastardization of a Japanese franchise
>>97257474Zoomer derangement syndrome
>>9727381090% of the post was anime.DMC is a japanese franchisedon't bump threads with retarded posts
This is a second OSRG, seperate from the main osrg thread, where you CAN talk about 2e, retroclones, and any osr content you want.This is different than the regular osrg as due to rampant trolling from a handful of bad actors, discussion is impossible.PREVIOUS THREAD>>97206318
>>97270832I'm still waiting for you to answer the question, how is one role that takes maybe 30 seconds to resolve, somehow a negative aspect for you?
>>97272671NTA, but it doesn't quite take 30 seconds to resolve, since a chart like that requires it to be looked up because it's so poorly constructed and organized, and then the "unique" (minor variations of the same few) affliction has to be written down and any contradictions (such as from previous afflictions) have to be resolved/ignored/figured out, and all for something as incredibly unwanted as a permanent debilitation that predominantly takes the form of an aesthetic modification and an annoying mechanical nuisance.You probably have not played enough games with real people to know that things like Crit Charts/Scar Tables/Permanent Wounds/etc. fall into that wonderful category of "Things a bad GM might like but most players hate", but even assuming the entire group actually enjoyed those sort of things, this particular execution is pretty awful because the majority of the rolls are poorly written/conceived dud results.I understand you're pretty much a hopeless retard and you won't be able to understand anything I've explained to you, but that's kind of why you're stuck trying to promote a game only a hopeless retard would ever think is good.
>>97273237You're wrong. It takes thirty seconds or less. >Character goes down>While waiting to be assessed you tally your bonus, as others take their turns>On your assessor's turn you roll 1d20+x and 1d6 How is this a hurdle for you?
>>97273237>You probably have not played enough games with real people to know that things like Crit Charts/Scar Tables/Permanent Wounds/etc. fall into that wonderful category of "Things a bad GM might like but most players hate">Character goes down>Character is dead beyond hopeor >Character goes down>Might have a chance of continuing adventuring with an acceptable wound, or even noneYeah, I'd much rather just outright die at 0hp, you're right :)
>>97273521>there's only two possible options and they both suckAnd this is why no one likes you.
Forgotten People 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.
>>97273369Nobody is forcing you to cast Smite as a Paladin. And likewise, it's not hard to homebrew 'Eldritch Knight but with the Cleric spell list'
>>97273570no, but you do lose access to your second (and third) extra attacks which are infinite and dont consume spell slots, which are for buffies and for healies. as for the homebrew, i dont think it is either, but that requires getting my DM on board with it. (good luck, me)
>>97273049everyone only gets 1 minute per turn on initiative, DM included.
has bahamut ever been given an official stat block? i was poking around online for a while but couldnt find much
>>97269584>>97269587>>97269599>>97269612>ethical and inclusion standardsI hate the publicly traded "institutional investors" who control everyone's 401ks.also isn't the seethe about slavery? I don't understand>no we can't depict slaveryno one alive today in the US was ever a slave and it was a historical reality and it was a historical reality (that exists even now) that basically every culture ever practiced slavery until the industrial revolution made them slavery less lucrative and the bongs did that massive banking scam over ending slavery where all the slavers got paid way more than their slaves were worth
Christmas edition▶What is Kingdom Death?Kingdom Death is a tabletop miniature brand stared by Adam Poots and operated by himself and his Team that later spun off into a miniature based bored game funded by two very successful Kickstarter campaigns.▶What is Kingdom Death: Monster?Monster is a Nightmare Horror cooperative boss battler/miniature hobby game for 1-4 players about hope in a strange world of bizarre monstrosities and perpetually darkness. Players take on the role of survivors that band together to form a settlement, fighting monsters, crafting weapons and gear, and developing their civilization to ensure survival from generation to generation.Prologue Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNLc8dHv0AcThe Game is broken up into 3 phases:1. During your Hunt Phase your band of survivors traverse the world of KD in pursuit of their quarry.2. After successfully tracking your quarry you will begin the Showdown Phase, where you must fell these horrific creatures in order to acquire precious resources.3. After the battle, your survivors wander home with loot in hand to begin the Settlement Phase. Arm yourself by developing new weapons and bizarre structures to prepare for next year's hunt.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
How many level 3+ monsters do y'all actually hunt? I'm realizing this is the first time I've ever actually hunted a level 3 screaming antelope, and I can't thinking of any others I actually hunted other than sunstalker, dragon king, and DBK.
>>97272594I usually exclusively start hunting lv.3s at around LY 15+Until then I baby mode and hunt lvl 1s. I usually find hunting Lv 2s to not be worth the risk/reward
>>97272155Not an answer people here might like but try the facebook group or the unofficial discord.
>>97269313Our group loves to mix and match their own survivors to paint with the entirity of core, gce, and almost all the expansion survivor bits. We always start with the founding survivor minis and then move to our 'actual' survivors once we gear up a bit (currently all using 10 uear survivors, but i got the 15 year box im waiting to give out as Xmas gifts our next game). Though if I do black knight, I should probably do the squiers. Speaking of: is the 5 year campaign as difficult as they say? I kind of want to do all the knights for lore purposes but ny group is still pretty new to the game (only a couple core campaigns with expansions sprinkled in).
>>97272992How do you know you're ready? I usually replace hunting level 1s with twos once I have dash and surge, and have at least one survivor with 5 armor all around and a shield, but I don't know the right metric for the level 3s other than "ran out of stuff to make"
New Year's Eve Samba editionPrevious >>97216789>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.
>>97271135>TQMy cute wife!
>>97272186>>97272320I like how most machinedramon arts are just ENTER moments for a boss
>TQBeelze got some excellent art this year.>>97271706Love this too. >>97272186>>97272320I like the DW1 Machinedramon design a lot. Glad they brought it back for the DM set.
>>97272978>average machinedramon 5 seconds after appearance
>>97273654The worst part about next order is that I got bored of fighting machinedramon
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.
I’m working on a horror scenario, care to help out with suggestions?The Premise: the player characters are all "test subjects" (probably former military, ex-cops, criminals, lone drifters and such) that were kidnapped or otherwise imprisoned by a sinister conspiracy of unknown nature or goals. They participate in "experiments" to "stress test" the conspiracy's "projects." Present day real world setting, on the surface.Any ideas for monsters, unnatural tech, twists, set pieces, testing grounds and scares?
>>97269260What movies/tv series are these from?
>>97271158The Newton Boys (1998)Sahara (2005)True Detective S1 (2014)
>>97268747It has a few recognizable names in it so I'm somewhat surprised I hadn't heard of it before.>>97268836So Singh's more of a style over substance type? I should ask, who is everyone here's favorite horror director?>>97270325Never looked too much into Unknown Armies but it looks like a good vehicle for adapting certain stories. Definitely something to look into more.
>>97270329The experiments are to test the limits of how much the "reality" of the world can be fucked with before people notice too hard.It starts as a slow creep before the overt stuff happens and everything is thematic to the situation.butt fuck nowhere USA with perfect white bread american ideal townsfolk? They are all secretly monsters pretending and the uncanny valley ramps up until they mask off.Random inner city USA? The faceless masses of people will randomly become monsters that hunt you down but non one else notices what's going on or your own presence even as they are attacked in the process.Typical desert village except you have to hide from some super giant monster that randomly spits out smaller monsters.Basically, boxed in experiences where the situation decays and forces the PCs to survive as long as possible fore they move on to the next box.
Valakut editionPrevious: >>97129473>News & RemindersWorld Championship 31 won by Seth Manfield (Izzet Lessons, United States, he/him)Complete winter achievements for rewards December 16-January 6From November 18, 2025–January 19, 2026 Golden Packs will temporary contain cards differently than before due to "various pieces of internal nonsense"https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-december-15-2025>Useful Linkshttps://pastebin.com/QFA0hqaA>TQHave you played the brawl challenge, and if so, which commander?
>>97272483MMR
>>97272222checking quads
botrans rightssisters we MUST reach bump limit before 2026 or op will kys as xyr spends another end of year alone and rejected
>>97273474yupmonowhite was disgustingly effective
>>97273607i have a bf
