After about 8 years since I last DM'ed a game, I've been asked to run a session. Unfortunately my books - adnd, 2e, 3e, 3.5, 4e, and 5e are in storage two states away.And i prefer physical copies. Thanks to critical role and the movie DND books have gone up in price which is weird.>4e books are ~10-15$ now. Is it viable to run 4e in 2025? I don't remember hating it and I still remember some home rules to streamline combat to speed it up a touch. Does anyone have suggestions for 1-3lvl adventures or campaign settings? >4e thread I guess
>>97254633>Except for Classes. By PHB3 they were out of steam and so Seeker and Runepriest were just unsupported ass, the Dragon exclusive Assassin just didn't work Part of that was them trying to lock every class into the Role/Power matrix. Giving every class a role was a good idea, but locking each class to a single power source massively limited design space as it prevented classes from deviating outside their default power source and forcing them to try and reinvent the wheel with each new class rather than allowing for some overlap.>>97254818>I'm totally not mad that Arcane Archer is my favorite archetype and its hot dogshit in every single edition.Arcane Archer is a really good example of a Ranger sub-class archetype would have been viable if they were not obsessed with locking classes to single power sources. Imagine a Martial/Arcane hybrid Ranger with a few "arrow enchantment" utility spells that supported the archer ranger's normal Martial at-will and encounter powers and a few "magic arrow" encounter and daily spell powers.
>>97255320>Part of that was them trying to lock every class into the Role/Power matrix. Giving every class a role was a good idea, but locking each class to a single power source massively limited design space as it prevented classes from deviating outside their default power source and forcing them to try and reinvent the wheel with each new class rather than allowing for some overlap.Which is something they changed in Essentials with several Classes being two Sources like Hunter and Skald. And it sucked because it was just a pointless label and they didn't actually inherit any of the loose unity that the original Classes within that Power Source had.Seeker and Runepriest being bad had less to do with crowbarring them into Power Sources and more to do with them being a double ups on existing Roles within that Power Sources. They were just unnecessary when next to Cleric and Druid. And also missing their Power books. And for Seeker the devs being dipshits and thinking [W] is too strong since the only other weapon based Controller also sucks balls. They didn't get that no damage at all but action denial like Daze, Stun or Dominate is infinitely more helpful than d10+mod and Slows.
>>97255320>Arcane Archer is a really good example of a Ranger sub-class archetype would have been viable if they were not obsessed with locking classes to single power sources. Imagine a Martial/Arcane hybrid Ranger with a few "arrow enchantment" utility spells that supported the archer ranger's normal Martial at-will and encounter powers and a few "magic arrow" encounter and daily spell powers.Seeker was just Arcane Archer except replace the word Arcane with Primal. It was the cool magic arrow spam class except its bad and you don't get the fantasy because you are dragging down your team. The 3e and 5e version of Arcane Archer sucks dick entirely because of your proposal. I want to shoot magic arrows all day. Not have 1 or 2 and then be a worse archer. Dragon's Dogma and the Wakfu franchise are like the only thing that gets this right.
>>97235255I miss the 4e warlord
>>97255496Really? I never found "give other people actions" that appealing as a class, desu. What did you like about it?
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>>97252599I wouldn't be surprised if dual cards activate by some other condition than counter timing.just because its savers I think people are thinking of marcus, but I think the more likely candidate for dual cards is burst mode's, having a card be both the regular and burst mode and having the burst mode part of the card activate upon some condition.imagine a lvl 6/7 card that is like "when this digimon would leave the battle area, trash all sources and digivolve into burst mode" and there is a separate section with a burst mode when evo and effect and its like a last ditch instant evo.obviously this is kind of a dumb example, but having them activate at counter timing, when a certain condition is fulfilled, or whatever, but it is on your opponents turn, potentially even having it be optional, definitely makes for some more interesting card design and is thematically appropriate.but who knows.
What is the strongest build for Alphamon? Is it CS or Chronicles or just >RK ?
>>97255183chronicle is kind of a meme but it got a few busted cards so so its getting closer and closer to goodand its getting more support next set.CS alpha stuff is just kind of bad and chronicle is better than it (at i'd say so)and yeah he gets used a decent amount in RK (always at least 1 ouryuken mode and very often just a regular alphamon)
>>97254207>imagine a lvl 6/7 card
>>97255327yeah I am suggesting mode changes and alternate forms might be what dual cards are with conditions to go into themwhich have typically been lvl 7 cards now.or is there something else you seemed to misunderstand?
>Nagas>Opidians>Serpentmen>Yuan-tiSnake and person. Snerson? Discuss all things snakepeople related here. These guys are my go-to mid-level baddies, they're so fucking cool and evil.
>>97251626>Many agricultural societies would take the opposite tack, because snakes eat what's eating the stuff you grow.Get a cat.
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>>97252313>Modern house cats are the same as badass ancient world cats
>>97252313>>97252324IIRC cats depend much for hunting prowess on their mothers teaching them how to hunt.Considering how little nowdays cats can hunt (well, at least comparing them to the absolute range-free cats of a century ago) I would assume what we're seeing is cultural degradation more than anything else. Even if a cat had a great grandmother huntress and now it can roam free, the generations that lost the arts of hunting would severely hurt its ability now.
On the spectrum of rubber forehead aliens to complete starfish aliens that are made out of silica and breathe methane, where are YOU specificially comfortable with. Does there come a point where an alien becomes too weird for you to "relate" to in order to include them in your games as playable races?Personally I am fond of aliens that look plausibly like they could have evolved in a different world and have no distinguishable lineage to earth life, even if they share some superficial features.
>>97251832I'm so sick of this "muh 4 limbs is most optimal" line of argument. Our number of limbs has NOTHING to do with some sort of biological optimum. Our number of limbs stems from our evolutionary history from how our bodies develop during the embryonic stage. If there was some sort of evolutionary pressure towards small limb counts we wouldn't see arthropods with limbs numbering from 6 all the way to over a thousand depending on the clade and the species.The reason landbound vertabrates have 4 lims is because we evolved from a 4 limbed ancestors, and the way our bodies develop makes it very, very hard for extra limbs to be cleanly added to our form. That is because the bodysegments/tagma in chordates are heavily fused, including our limb producing segments, thus essentially in order to produce new limbs you'd need a series of mutations that solely duplicate the parts of the genome responsible for limb development, in a way that these extra limbs still cleanly connect and join the rest of the bodyplan.In comparison, something like a centipede, whose bodyplan retains entirely unfused limb producing bodysegments, can just replicate those segments as they grow in size without any issues, as if they were just adding identical beads to a rosary string. Whereas for vertabrates, if we use similar comparison, the parts of our bodies from which our limbs grow out out, are all tangled up in the same body segments that also develop our internal organs and shit. Essentially, our torsos are a product of multiple bodysegments fusing together in our early evolutioary history, leading to the 4 limb configuration.Same process is why insects have just 6 limbs, or why spiders have only 8 limbs and so on. Once body segment fusion happens it is very hard for evolution to untangle it.
>>97253368no anon that's verifiable and testable i prefer my evolution speculation to be stoner tier ass pulling about hypothetical selective pressures
>>97251832>he still thinks the food chain is a pyramid
>>97253464The food pyramid was built by food slaves in food chains
>>97240164I'm more into the birrin/star wars level of "they're obviously not human, but they're still clearly people"but of course the best pick is human-created genetically-engineered catgirls for domestic ownership/military applications/industrial labor that have gone rogue after the local human population disappeared.
>>97171444 >What is /awg/?A thread to talk about minis and games which fall between the cracks, or peoples' homebrew wargames.The >>>/tg/hwg thread doesn't entertain fantasy (for good reason) and the other threads are locked to more specific games.This thread isn't tied to a game, a publisher, or a genre, let's just talk about fun wargames. Any scale, any company, any miniatures.>Examples of games that qualify.A Song of Ice and Fire, Argatoria, Batman Miniature Game, Carnevale, Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings,Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, Freebooter's Fate, Frostgrave, Gaslands, HeroClix,Kings of War, Maelstrom's Edge, Malifaux, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Masters of the Universe: Battleground, Moonstone,Oathmark, OnePageRules, Open Combat, RelicBlade, Rumbleslam, SAGA, StarCraft, Stargrave, Sludge, Urban War, Void,Warcaster, Warmachine, Xenos Rampant, Xenotactics......and anything else that doesn't necessarily have a dedicated thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97255081OMG I need to look into this, I've wanted a Starcraft game for year
>>97254656>after assembling Malifaux kits, I don't how any plastic model is cut for granted.Heh. Most of their models come together like a dream, but there are some that... don't. Plus they do have weird issues like a box of 3 models of the same unit that come in 3 different "32mm" scales and styles.
Do you dislike the reuse of sculpts?
>>97255289Most of the time it's not a problem at all because the sculpt is the only thing I'm buying the model for in the first place. The old Future Wars sculpts have been passed around to what, three or four companies now?
>>97221443>warzone eternalEw why?
Holiday EditionDiscuss and post elves. Elf lore, gameplay, and art are all appreciated.QOTT: What are some of the best gifts to give elf-lovers? What gifts would you give to lovers of other races/species/ancestries/whatever?
>>97252775it's been pretty civil. I know I've been having some real arguments with noldorfag over christmas some years when I've been bored
>>97250542>it's a bunch of thousand-plus year old elves banging human women in their 50s and 60s.This was one of the more interesting and amusing things in Interspecies Reviewers. Elves actually enjoyed being with humans, but only if they were older, like 50 or 80 years old. Older the better, usually. This was due to elves (and other magically inclined races) being able to immediately tell a person's mana, which apparently has a sort of taste to it.This is inverted for humans, who are essentially "mana-blind". Cue many situations where the human reviewer goes after very old elves and has a good time, but everyone else is absolutely fucking disgusted by it because an old elf's mana is very gross.
>>97250603>just naive and a bit weird for creeping on 16 year old ParnJust shut the fuck up with this age gap garbage. Is fiction for God's sake.
>>97254500It's even funnier in the light novels since everyone always assumes Deedlit is a child of about 12 from a distance until they see her elf ears. So she's canonically a loli baba.
>>97255077thank god she's drawn as a hot early 20's woman at least. Dodged that bullet
You should ALWAYS cheese every encounter. If you EVER end up in a situation that even remotely resembles a fair fight, just run away and wait until you can rig the situation to your favor. Use your fucking brain. Even if it is highly improbable for you to lose a given fight, statistically speaking, you'll still eventually croak if you keep taking those bets. Don't leave it up to chance. It's easier than you might think, you just need to use your noggin. It's not a video game. You can do whatever the fuck you want.Just the other night my party ran into a melee monster in a narrow ass room that they for some reason decided to ram their dicks into until someone died. When I suggested that we retreat for a bit and lure it into the room with the big ass statues so we can all just climb them and shoot it to death, they looked at me like I just escaped from the looney bin. They all died of course.
>>97255149You haven't seen shit. Don't even pretend.By the way, getting upset and aggressive when exposed to better alternatives is stupid people 101.
>>97255155See, I can call you a liar too, anon.>better alternatives I've yet to see any from you, liar.
>>97255149Stop feeding the troll, for god's sake.
>>97255437Not everything that makes you uncomfortable is trolling.
>>97255503Says the troll
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>>97255495no, I wouldn't, and if you genuinely think that vampires having infiltrated the empire to a degree means that they control everything and that the empire has no agency and that it's game over, then you're fucked up in the head.
>gw: make 80% of the armies too weak and not worth playing>also gw: why are people only buying 20% of our armies, we need to end the game it's not profitable anymore
>>97255520Please go back to /twg/ and try again later, thanks.
>>97255506Anon there will ALWAYS be someone relatively weaker or stronger. Thats an inescapable reality of both "this is a game that isnt perfectly balanced" and "there are multiple factions". Competitive games with far fewer moving parts (like starcraft) have weaker and stronger factions,CHESS has weaker and stronger factions/colors (white has a slight advantage iirc). Someone is going to be in the bottom 50% and thats fine. "I spent money on this, therefore my army shouldnt be weaker than anything else" is stupid. Both because if ignores the reality of games and because it ignores the reality of "you may have built a bad army, who cares if you spent money on 100 marauders, its 100 marauders thats retarded". TOW is not a perfectly balanced game, GW has never made perfectly balanced games. TOW has issues, it has overpowered and underpowered things and elements within armies which dont work as I believe they should. TOW is, for warhammer fantasy, very well balanced. With the exception of a handful of outliers the armies exist in a spectrum where they can meaningfully play each other and games are relatively balanced. These results are from OldWorldRankings, an aggregator based on various tournament results around the world.
>>97255544And this is the faction "pick rates", both showing that there isnt actually a big drive towards the most powerful factions (WoC are not placer super highly, although this may be correlated with them being played a whole lot, cathay the undisputed top dogs are not very popular) and that empire isnt being particularly skewed by its share of the playerbase.
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>>97255232Cool!
I didn't even get close to an image for pic rel until I used Nano BananaSeems like it's the only one that doesn't produce straight body horror or furries at all times
>>97255435Well, are you going to show us what Nano Banana gave you, or must we merely imaging the catgirl?
>>97255435Nano Banana Pro is really good, and can follow precise instructions, arrange stuff, combine artstyles and elements from multiple pics. All in all, the best I've used so far.So, what are your gens about that?
>>97255466I was slopping on my phone over Christmas (too much coffee and had to do something at night) so I had to find it firstI think the face could be more feline but whatever, for once something got the fur right and didn't go apeshit when I asked for some feline facial features
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>>97253536They're not even listed among regiments in 10th codex
>>97255479Meanwhile, at Vostroya:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NljiljBfGfs
Why are lightning claws done so damn dirty this edition? Generally when a unit can take it they can have a master crafted PW or better and I can't even save on points or anything now.
>>97255345the Exalted Sorcerers comes with a head that is very similar to the old Chaos Sorcerer for Fantasy.
>>97255490But anon, that means their leader with 4 bodyguards is female
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>>97255127The only guild I recall are the Mnemoi. They're great, the heroes of Stygia, no wonder I can't recall any of the others.I also recall the Artificers and Alchemists because I found it weird how some sources say the former fucked the latter over to get rid of their main rival but others say that the Artificers are staunch allies of the Alchemists. But then, those kinds of contradictions aren't uncommon in complicated politics.
>>97255147>spoiler>(((Alchemists))) greatest ally>The (((Artificers)))This is certainly rather American sounding.
Are there any Willpower restoring abilities or gimmicks in CofD? I need something for a Deviant character.
>>97255102I mean there was a greentext from a guy playing Wraith from a few hours ago
>>97255454And still no one to rank them. I do remember the Wraith guy though, I'm just being realistic over how many anons actually play or bother to read Wraith.
This is a general for everything 3D printed relating to /tg/ from sci-fi, fantasy, historicals, fantasy football, and more! Share your printed minis, terrain, print fails, 3d modelling, printing advice, works in progress, or anything else /tg/-related to 3D printing.>DO:- Post pics of your prints be they fails or triumphs- Keep discussion/photos about tabletop games only- Post your resin/printer/settings for faster advice- Help your fellow anons with advice>TRY TO:- Remember that this general is monitored by GWendolin and her lawyers- Not make a new thread until old one dies- Not encourage namefags, tripfags, fumefags and coomers- Not spoonfeed- Not war over Filament/Resin consoles- Keep your model pics naked (no paint/undercoat only)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97252283nvm, found what I was looking for.
How do people find unobtanium models like Wilph Diverging Realms if it's not on public tgs?
>>97254487You get them all before he nuked his Cults.
>>97255035I wish I was dead
Oh no. I stripped a few jetbikes, and they became a bit more, uh, hebrew. Boiling them will probably work, but i thought it looked funny.
What is the best TTRPG for a Kenshi Campaign?
>>97255285Sure but if you're willing to go that low in pages, GURPS is probably not even your best bet
>>97255317Would *I* run anything with GURPS Lite? No. I'm an adult.They were asking how to run a game that is famous for having extremely simple mechanics for characters which is really just all about vibe and atmosphere and grimdank survival management. Or, in other words, they are extremely inexperienced with tabletop games and they need something incredibly incredibly simple to use because anything real might be too complicated and scare them off. Lite is there for that. It's literally designed specifically to introduce noobies to tabletop gaming. Which is why I mentioned it.
Runequest/Mythras/BRPFits it perfectly
>>97255019I think the primary issue with porting it over to paper and dice is specifically that you need to be able to rapidly determine which limb an attack hits, what resistance, if any, that limb has to the type of damage being dealt, and then what penalties the target takes from having that limb harmed. And you need to be able to do this dozens of times per combat, because most Kenshi fights are group v group, so you'd be keeping track of limb health, recovery rate, etc, for a large group of characters at a time.Not impossible to do. Probably wouldn't even be hard to streamline things a bit more, but it would be a lot of bookkeeping.
>>97255463Mythras/Runequest/BRP already have systemd that do exactly this, up to and including individual limb health and healing.
Skinwalker 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.
>>96995888>have great idea for a snarky female investigative reporter character>end up playing a discount Alex Jones instead to avoid making things weirdIs it weird to play female characters in spooky games? Like with other more combat focused systems it's not as big of a deal since you're just smacking things more often, but does the (often) more RP-heavy nature of horror settings make playing the other gender more of a weird experience at the table? Assume we don't put on voices for our characters.
>>97248475not unless someone actively makes it weird
>>97247410Don't get my hopes up anon
Maybe the real horror was the fa/tg/uys we met along the way.
>>97248475Honestly if you ask me it's probably easier to end with the stereotypical man with tits in heavy action games than in a "real" setting, if you can roleplay just a tiny bit. Horror starts up almost inevitably in a "real world" type of situation, which is good for characters if that's what you fear.However, there a lot of horror and horror related tropes that are feminine-coded and you'd probably want to avoid those. Like the final girl in slasher movies or the vamp in hard-boiled novels. I'd say amusingly enough the RPG horror milieu isn't particulary prone to dwell on them, thanks to Lovecraft's almost asexuality or something, but anyway. Probably if the GM isn't riffing on Clive Barker and the other players don't want to fuck everything with a vagina you're good with a female professional, you're gonna have other priorities (like, you know, surviving). Just don't try to make her not!Buffy, if anything try to make her sensible if vulnerable (and probably older).
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?
>>97255212i play sweepers and you play no haste
>>97255256I play blue dummy LOL
Checking the Steam forums is actually hilarious, they let people complain about rigging as much as they want
>>97255212ouroborid should not exist. Neither should badgermole cub. This game seems to be about lucky draws now.
>>97255462>ouroborid should not exist. Neither should badgermole cubYes. >this card game is about lucky drawsok
