Dark Heresy is for Manly Men Edition>RPG Rulebookshttps://rentry.org/40kRPGLinks>Homebrew Collection (Feb 2025)https://rentry.org/40RPGHB>WANG/Imperium Maledictum Newshttps://cubicle7games.com/blog/warhammer-40k>Bestiary, armoury, weapon quality and NPC databasehttp://www.40krpgtools.com/>Dark Heresy 2e Character Creator:https://apps.ajott.io/dh2chargen/>General 40kRPG Encyclopediahttps://www.scholaprogenium.com/>Offline Combined Armory (v6.48.161023)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Have anyone ever featured or encountered a C'tan or C'tan Shard in any of your games? I'm reading through The Outer Reach and it just doesn't really do much to flesh them out or how to roleplay them. What are they like, what are their goals and motivations beyond being, you know, Pokémon? The C'tan have always struck me as being the more Lovecraftian beings compared to the Chaos Gods, being more ambiguously evil entities rather than Chaos' cackling evil.
Does anyone know where to find a good game for dark heresy? My local groups gay and just wants to play shadowrun and others have kids that eat up their time
>>97346680A couple times as a generic boss, because the smaller the shard, the less of a personality it has They're kind of like the flood, a shard is like an infection form, empty headed and single-minded about finding more of themselves, but combine enough shards and you get a Gravemind...that mainly cares about finding more of themselves.In my last series, I had shards so small that they could be used as Stands. One player had a C'tand of Nyadra'zatha, though, and that was fun to see. It was a little bomb dude that caused havoc in fights. Those C'tands caused the players a ton of problems, though, because of everyone else who had and used them. C'tand masters are drawn to one another, after all.
>>97346715Comparing them to the Gravemind is a good one, but I feel that kind of... I dunno, part of me wants to say that it's not enough. Like, I don't want it to be some mindless disease. I'd want the Nightbringer to speak the language of death and the dying, I'd want the Deceiver to do tricky shit and wax poetic about the concept of lying. They should be more than just evil being that's trying to recollect itself.
>>97346680>what are their goals and motivations beyond being, you know, PokémonBeing infinite% mad and living weapons. They're the barest slivers of what they once were and don't have much of a mind to plan things out.
About to start a daggerheart one-shot that could potentially lead into a stable groupWhat am I in for? I thought there'd be more fanfare for this
>>97332330An okay-ish system that is way more fully of arbitrary game logic about what a character can and can't do based on randomly earned metacurrencies and video game-y attempts at "balance" through likewise arbitrary restrictions on what characters can or can't do.Some people like it, others don't even care it exists. CR/Darrington got their fans to buy it, and then made a bunch of retarded excuses for why they won't be using it for their main campaign after they already sold it to their fans.
>>97332330>daggerheartCan't you just play D&D like a good person? Daggerheart is hot garbage.
>>97332330>Daggerheart >DnD heartbreaker Oh I get it lol.
>>97336644>arbitrary game logicoh I like chaos
>>97332330We need more context for this anon. Have you played anything other than D&D before? Are your players familiar with the kind of game Daggerheart is? Are you using the starter adventure?
>30 years>bestselling book series of all time>world's most famous fantasy setting>still no (official) tabletop RPGlolwut
>>97345620>costsThat's another big issue when you start trying to translate Harry Potter magic. Spells typically don't have costs. Even if you want to ignore the various dark arts and avada kedavra and say that those require someone to be particularly sadistic to use them correctly, we see lots of simple spells that functionally just win fights instantly. The only real reason as to why someone can't use a spell is due to a lack of practice or talent with the spell.Except even that's not always the case, because you have Obviate as a relatively precise memory-wiping spell. But instead of that spell simply failing if a novice casts it, we see Ron mess it up and it still causes massive memory loss and brain damage. The spell is actually more dangerous in the hands of someone unskilled.There's no way to make a functional system out of this, because even if you try to gate powerful spells behind higher tiers of magical skill, a PC can just lobotomize any enemy they come across instead.This gets even worse if you're not just having the PCs getting into fights against monsters and evil wizards, because then they're free to try and abuse the hell out of a lot of weird magic.There's magic that can duplicate objects. There's magic that can make it impossible for anyone in the world to learn a 'secret'. There's magic to turn inanimate objects into animals. There's magic to turn creatures into inanimate objects.This isn't something that you can just slot in to replace the D&D spell list and expect it to function, because it's not going to survive 5 minutes of scrutiny from the players.
>>97345952You are an easily manipulated mouthpiece. For the banker shit, the main thing people complain about (the set used for the Deathly Hallows movie) was ALREADY LIKE THAT before they started filming.
>>97344959>Magic has rulesWhat rules man that shit is never explained? It's just a list of spells and generic stuff that never gets named. As for world building, I'll agree that Magical England is pretty well built as is Hogwarts, but that's pretty much where the book ends in terms of quality world building. Her entire take on "druids" and everywhere outside of England except for France having regional schools instead of a per-country is some laughable lack of logical thinking. I can't blame her for it though, it's ultimately a children/ YA book and it isn't meant to be a le deep fantasy political world built for autists like GRRM (who's also got his own pitfalls as a writer too, like any).
>>97345083I'd like to note that the location of the lake is actually not consistent, as it's sometimes in a different location or elevation difference from where it was from the start. This isn't a big enough deal to matter though.
>>97345116The setting has potential for more noir-ish story telling about wizards breaking wizard laws, so that you can apply mundane situations (Meth labs, tax evasion, murder, assault) to a fantastical setting that lets people get engaged with alternative forensics or somewhat nonsensical witness testimony. It could be interested, even if a majority of it is gay 9-5 office shit, teaching, fieldwork, or playing the singular sportsball in the setting.
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.
>>97346726>I haven't even washed the model yet.Anon please tell me you mean wash as in a painting wash and you're not painting and handling unwashed resin
>>97346779Resin is good for your body and mind (this is satire please do not ingest or preferably handle resin)
>>97346779Oh no, i mean wash like paint. Gloves and clean air, resin bad.
>>97346731That both seems unwise and against the lore. Without infantry, who's going to hold ground and screen the tanks against the feral hordes of 30-50 astartes? Without tanks, how are they to reach their objectives without being bombarded to smithereens or handle hard targets? To me, an ideal solar aux force, or really any force of normal humans in Warhammer since they play pretty similarly, would be something like 25% infantry (including command elements, 15% artillery, 60% tank in points.
>>97346815>Without tanks, how are they to reach their objectives without being bombarded to smithereensThe Emperor will know His own
Previous thread: >>97215703GURPS is a modular, adaptable system, capable of running a wide range of characters, settings, and play styles, with a level of detail varying from lightweight to completely autistic.Optional rules allow you to emulate different genres with a single system, or even switch genres within a single game.A nearly complete archive of GURPS books can be found by using the image. Never post direct links to the archive anywhere in plain text.If you're wondering where to start:- The Basic Set covers everything, including a lot of optional rules you probably won't use.- A genre guide can be found in the archive, under Unofficial/GURPSgen. It tells you what extra books and articles you may find useful for many common genres.- How To Be a GURPS GM is a good read even for players.- GCS (gurpscharactersheet.com) is an excellent character-builder software, with page references to all the books and the option to export to both Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.Thread question: What are some systems or you would like to include or see included in a campaign, but haven't been able to? They don't have to be the main focus of the game, having them only as something on the side is okay.
>>97344805(1) *teleports the goalposts back to their original position*(2) Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. https://litter.catbox.moe/0h4d2axyjmgl6t7f.pdf
>>97345221>*teleports the goalposts back to their original position*Do you understand what Print On Demand means? Do you understand that it is intended to create a proper book, and not just a text file vomited out onto a page like you pressed Ctrl-P on a forum?>https://litter.catbox.moe/0h4d2axyjmgl6t7f.pdf>sentences and paragraphs broken across columns and pages even if there's enough space for them to not do so>column headings awkwardly wrapped and oversizedThat looks absolutely atrocious. I'm pretty sure I could feed a LaTeX rough into a random scientific journal format and get better results. Never attempt layout again.
>>97345467The benefit of EPUB/HTML/XHTML is that you can manipulate it easily, without having to spend a zillion hours/dollars on laying it out in Adobe InDesign as SJ Games currently does. It's a "sane default" that can be tweaked easily if you really care about how it looks.>B-but it looks ugly!I disagree.The previous PDF can be considered a large-print version for people with bad eyesight. Here's one with smaller print that's closer to how the official PDF looks. https://litter.catbox.moe/sguru1z1mwtigfnh.pdf
>Step away from GURPS and GURPS-related stuff for around a full year due to burnout, IRL engagements, etc.>Get the itch, start flipping through the books and doing some GURPS theorycrafting again>Swing by the general to see how things have developed>HTMLfaggot is *still* arguing that PDFs are the devil, and any complaints about the fugly and unreadable layout is moot because 'muh infinitely customizable CSS', Good to see some things do not change.
>>97345862>Here's one with smaller print that's closer to how the official PDF looks. https://litter.catbox.moe/sguru1z1mwtigfnh.pdf>sentence and paragraph breaking still all over the place>column headers still break in the middle of words instead of on the spaces between words>tables still break over columns instead of trying to remain contiguousYou have fixed exactly nothing. It's really quite impressive how much nothing you've accomplished by changing the font size.>sane defaultA sane default would be building the content in LaTeX, to leverage its ability to take your content and drop it directly into a pre-prepared document formatting template with minimal work. There is a reason scientific journals use it to concatenate papers from multiple different authors.
Is it better to have fully anthropomorphic beast people in your settings or just humans with like animal ears and tails?
>>97330169Point to me where the furfag bait is at because I see none. You’re just trolling anon, this is a beastman bread
>>97330572Furfags hated him because he spoke the truth.
>>97337289All your examples are from D&D and all your arguments are because D&D 5e did it.
>>97346279>>97330572Not really, if anything half the time it makes kemonomimi characters even more annoying than regular beastfolk because they HAVE to overplay the animal meme behavior because otherwise you'd forget they were not human, and that their inhumanity is not even important to their character.
Remember, if she doesn’t have a snout she’s out
The /btg/ is dead! Long live the /btg/!Lilith Hall editionPrevious Thread: >>97325390================================>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.
>>97346498Wolverine 10R. Limited ammo that's got CASE II, decent armor, unfortunately an XL engine, but it's at least got some other crap stuffed in the torso to eat crits.
>>97346644I think this is the one NEA used against me in our game.
>>97346644Yeah that looks like the smart money. The only mech other than the Exterminator that out-armors it at that speed that isn't a quad is the Morpheus and I'm not about to start running a bunch of solaris fits for my mech-techs to fuck up. Besides the Streak 6 gets me some of the crit-seeking I'm missing. Plus I'm a sucker for MASC.Thanks chief.
>>97344938https://www.etsy.com/listing/1451767126/12533mm-hex-grassland-play-mat-gripmat?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=battletech+playmat&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1&sts=1&loc=1&local_signal_search=1&content_source=3bb3a13e-df37-4386-9b3d-8b4b7f46e5b1%253ALTd2b71779a5dae7d421499fa2b0e17745adf908ab&logging_key=3bb3a13e-df37-4386-9b3d-8b4b7f46e5b1%3ALTd2b71779a5dae7d421499fa2b0e17745adf908abI ordered 48" x 48" from this guy. Waiting for it to get here. Fingers crossed...
So it's impossible to know for sure where a JumpShip in front of you just jumped to, and give chase?
Emotional support elf editionDiscuss elves.Post elves.Love elves.All elf lore, game stories art and any else that's elfy is all appreciated.Thread question: To what extent do elves share their wisdom and experience with other races to help them emotionally and psychologically?previous thread: >>97278632
>>97344970Well, could you at least stick to the ones where he still looks like an elf and not like a fucking dread lord cosplayer?
BRIDES OF KHAINE.
>>97345740The masks are inferior to Fantasy Battle's Witch Elves.
>>97341174>>97341227I'll raise you male elf on female human.
>>97345740Is there a way you can kitbash them to keep them bald but take away their masks?
The first four dubs and above makes it canon. Those will be the constraints to build the setting around.
>>97333046Like this? >>97331568>Deshreti Prestorite Church: the holy church of the Red Sands split from the Apostolic Church fairly early during a doctrinal dispute. The Godhead, a concept abandoned by the Apostles for a more angelic or even archonic interpretation of the high wills, believed in the words of Father Prestor. God, according to the Deshreti, can be broken into three portions with each embodying different concepts of the divine will: the Creator/Demiurgos, the Lord of Heaven/Pantokrator, and the divine force that lies within all man if they chose to be saved. Angels tend to take a backseat in Deshret sermons with most priests focusing upon God himself and the wonders of creation. >The Prestorites were brutally subjugated by the Zaranim who kidnapped many women and boys and left the church on life support for many centuries. The Great Crusade brought an end to the Zaranim and the reign of cruel Sultans. The Crusading Orders formed a grim alliance with the Prestorites who saw their form of worship opposed to the reign of the Angels which succeeded in revitalizing the Church (a few forced conversions at the point of a sword helps with that) and brought upon a new era. The Ghazi raids are still an ever-persistent threat with Mujahedeen attacks being fairly common.>In addition, tensions are growing between the Patriarchs and the Apostolic lords who aggressively hold onto their power long after the fall of Zaranism.
>>97298399Catromancy is the magical discipline of drawing maps of the lands beyond the known borders of the world. Little do they know that the very act of Cartomancy creates the very lands they envision.Check 'em.
>>97340894Womp womp. Failed because I misspelled the first goddamn word.
I guess I should reinvigorate this threadRoll for the crusader state location. You also get to describe the current political situation in more detail.
Rolled 8 (1d100)>>97344683The Kingdom of KrieslendReligion: Apostolic Culture: CrownlanderRuling Dynasty: von LohengrinDemographics:>7% Imperial>13% Outremer*>75% Guntharran >5% various nonhumansA brief background: the Holy Grail Empire, famed for its many knights and a strict code of chivalry, leaped at the chance to join the First Crusade. Why? The Knights of the White Stallion have a rite of passage not necessarily far off from the Hajj of the desert raiders in which they search for the Holy Grail. While the knights failed to find the artifact, they did manage to set up a foothold that only grew with succeeding crusades in the following centuries. Proselytization of the natives succeeded but only due to the presence of the Guntharran Gregorian Church which was more approachable for the Zaranites. Tension has risen with the Guntharrans who are increasingly indifferent or even resentful towards their 'saviors' as the Zaranim are now a bunch of sweaty desert nomads and the non-humans safely deposited within their ghettos. Non-humans are often kept as slaves with the sole exception of the Gnomish Banking Clans which essentially run these ghettos as personal fiefdoms with debt peonage becoming an increasingly valid form of servitude. Gnomish peonage is a better lot than getting worked to death by humans after all... Davidians, as always, are blamed for most of the kingdom's problems. Imperials do view them poorly after all.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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.
>>97346452>>97346478Ill give that a try, I just wanted to be able to see the bottem with skulls and what not. I fucked around with 3d printing for so long I just really didnt want to have another liquid resin mess to clean up and didnt know if there was an easier alternative or somthing to pick up at flgs. Think blood angle red contrast would do well with a light coating?>>97346463Weather and patience willing. Last time I tried acoustic resin setting, my item was covered in debris and knocked over by small animals (I live in the woods) and was still tacky.
>>97346603>I can work from homeThat's not meaningful on it's own as a statement.I too work from home, and I couldn't possibly be gone for 3 days in a row because the cattle would be starving.
>>97346618>my item was covered in debris and knocked over by small animalsYou can put it inside, there's this thing called a window that doesn't block the UV spectrum of sunlight at all.
>>97346274thanks! I dunno what I'm doing! >>97346322aaaaaa thank uornj
>>97345832Left
White Wolf died. But where's the replacements? DnD has hundreds of clones. But where are all the vampire/mage/werewolf clones? Is because DnD is more generic and easier to copy?
>>97344409>The actual definition is obscure slang>Reading is too hard, I need someone to spoonfeed my opinions to me.>I would have to literally read every single page of every single book to come to any kind of conclusion for myselfYeah bud, you should just stop. Gming is going to be too much of a mental load for you.
>>97344756>what is a hyperbole>ignoring the valid part where feeling of a system stems from experiencelooks like you're fishing. also why would i take your advise? you seem to have no insight into anything at all
>>97344795Fishing? What are you talking about? I'm not on a lake with a pole trying to catch fish, are you using some kind of obscure slang?
>>97344850no you're under a bridge weaving baskets. must be my eyesight
>>97340589H5 and W5 somehow manage to be worse at enforcing street level play and no fun allowed stuff, so really I suppose it's just the new writers must also hate the more gonzo side of the setting. W5 in particular makes me mald as I enjoyed Werewolf for what it was, and W5 is less Werewolf than V5 is Vampire.>>97340688Well because the system is actually pretty open-ended and is technically a sequel to the older editions your DM is free to pick and choose what he likes to add and use. There are also no missing clans or disciplines technically, the retards at the helm decided anything flavorful or unique should either get smushed together (Obtenebration and Necromancy into Oblivion, making every Lasombra a necromancer) or made into an amalgam ability like Vicissitude being protean + domination. As for clans, they either got renamed (Setites into Ministry) or they got merged into the Hecata for all the necromancer clans. It's incredibly retarded though and you're free to ignore it of course, but the system is worse in general. Still nothing stopping you from using your old books of course.
Douchemachine used to be the largest competition to GW. Now look at it and laugh
>>97332398Like >>97333357 said, Steamforged officially announced that a new faction based on the Protectorate will be showing up this year.
>>97344128There's a ton of lore for MK4, its just all paywalled in the app. Which, I know a lot of people are mad about, but I mean, come on, is paying $15 for a month's access and downloading all the stories any worse than paying for several $15+ books for the stories? Or just do the yearly to get your uber monstrosity and take your time downloading the lore. Still stuck reading off of a screen, which sucks, but better then no lore.
>>97344573They are. Orgoth killed Blightergast and gave his Anthanc to Toruk as a trade for an alliance.
>>97335452GW also had heavy competition from the "plastic crack" boardgame segment like CMON, but Trump's tariffs have basically killed that since its essentially impossible to manufacture them in the US.
>>97335452>D&D died soon as stranger things became turbo-gay and WOTC embraced the woke without realizing they're pandering to the 1% of the country that never plays tabletop gamesI don't think that's true. I've never seen so many faggots outside RPG circles as I have within them. The hobby is pretty fruity, and when you look at prominent early figures like Jaquays or even Ed Greenwood's magical realm to things like RPG.net and other nerd hobby forums, I think it's safe to say that tabletop games were woke long before the cambrian explosion on tumblr.I'd say the opposite is true. The 1% that bitches the most about these things are the rw guys who were either going to pirate it, or buy it anyway regardless of the grumbling. No real sense in pandering to rightoid cheapskates if you lose 10 people who pay 10x for every 1 rw culture warrior you bring in by pandering. The perennial problem with the right and the arts, is that they almost never put their money where their mouths are and support sympathetic artists.
Previous: >>97339661Mox Edition>Most recent bracket system updatehttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/commander-brackets-beta-update-october-21-2025>Outline article introducing the bracket systemhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/introducing-commander-brackets-beta>Current banlisthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list#commander-banned>Gay Bolashttps://e621.net/posts?tags=nicol_bolasComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>HIIIIISSSSSSSSS!DooM set when?
>>97346811>>97346840Liars
>>97346848Well the last set of 2027 will be Starfield so maybe 2028
>>97346845boobs are sexist, anon, gotta chop them off and make sure everyone can see your mastotomy scars.
>>97346872I mean there's more to it than that, Rashel has bigger boobs than Thalia but Rashel's design lacks femininity anyway because it's just a genderbent male design trope.
dead before bump limit 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.
Is this model as 100% going to snap as it looks? Do you pin that tiny support?
>>97341627why would it snap? this is a painter's scale mini in plastic, not resin, and it's for sitting on your shelf looking (hopefully) good
Honestly I feel like drawing perfect resources off the bat in the early years is such a curse, because I want to save them which cripples my early game resource efficiency. I almost wish they were only added to the deck for level 2+ monsters only
>>97326612I jerk my dick to my minis, but I'm not enough of a degen to jerk my dick ON my minis. Definitely getting my money's worth (6 figs btw)
>>97346737why tf did I say 6, I meant 4
I know there's Everyone Is John, is there anything like picrel? A lighter Fiasco-style game, mixed with Monster of the Week? (Ideally not PbtA please.)Also what are /tg/'s thoughts on SP? Both the comic and the movie.
>>97344560You don't need a system for slice of life. Just do freeform and maybe a random roll for vibes here and there.I never felt the urge to find out what scott pilgrim is.
>>97344560Slugblasters is basically Scott Pilgrim if he was a skater bro instead of a band kid
>>97344560Literally none of those games are compatible nor slice of life, and neither is Scott Pilgrim.>>97346470Slugblaster isn't remotely analogous to Scott Pilgrim, either.
