Little suprises editionLast time on /bgg/: >>97360696Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqTQ:>What game did you expect to hate, but ended up really liking it?>What game did you expect to love, but endet up hating it?
will do you
>>97407761Beginner's luck is very real and very annoying. But it's great to get people into the hobby
mfw I make a game that many consider one of my best but then some randoms make a first time game, publish it in the same year, their game is constantly compared to and described as my design and everyone likes it more.
>>97408185what game?
>>97403456>We play games to escape the reality of the modern worldI play games because they are fun to play. If you need to "escape reality", you should be putting some effort into making your reality better for yourself rather than running away from it. Go ahead and shoot people if you like, but you won't because you are a pussy and, in fact, knows that you can't do much by yourself to change your reality. A loser by the very definition of the world that can't even enjoy their own hobbies without having to contextualize it by having to exclude other people or even the idea of other people. Downright pathetic.
Magic and pokemon won
Magic is fucking dead what are you talking about.
pokemon was popular when i was a wee lad
Scalpers won. The only popular card games have speculation on pieces of cardboard. Id say only 1 in 10 actually plays the card game they buy now.
>>97408222This. Magic and Pokemon is entirely just a cardboard stock market where the card game imaginary and the card value is made up.
>>97408222Pokemon is barely even 1 in 1000 and they don’t pretend otherwise.
It can’t just be about the money because during the TSR era they shoved all the artists like Brom into one room and made them work for peanuts.
>>97402311t. thinks gacha is the endgame of visual perfection
>>97405890Parkinson was a god-tier artist. RIP in burger flippin
>>97402232On the one hand I have never met Wayne Reynolds and maybe he saves puppies on the regular and is a nice man, but his art makes me want to disembowel him
D&D 24 MM art has almost only good designs and PHB had some really nice artworks.5e was a lowpoint but the new art is qualitatively better, some fags just don't like what's being depicted and then claim the way it is depicted is also bad (inability to discern the actual craft from the content of the work)
I feel like today's artists no longer have any knowledge about color theory and can no longer depict lighting in a realistic or interesting way.I draw a bit myself and I think Digital tools are absolutely incredible for creation but I feel that something was lost when we no longer had to mix paint ourselves. The guys that started on traditional media and later moved to digital, usually get better results then the ones who mainly grew up with a tablet in their hands.I am also certain that before, the artists were more aware of the painters and grand masters of the past.
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>>97402763The Big Book Of Random Tables - Modern appears to haven no text.
>>97408211Thanks for letting me know! I moved all my stuff to USB drives and back earlier last year so some of them got corrupted because i put too many of them in a single flash drive, you guys finding this stuff helps out a lot because i have 7800+ pdfs lol. Check it now, should be good!
>>97406517V12 is on /FoundryModuleVTT
Does anyone have the new Nimble subclasses that dropped today on the patreon? Mage and hunter TIA
Did you know that in 1999 Dan Abnett did a comic that was basically a wholesale rip-off of 40k except the main character was this vampire lady that he had all the other characters constantly talk about how sexy she was.It had a feudal space Catholic empire that oppressed mutants, and even had elite warriors with implanted organs and cybernetics using weapons called bolters. Later Dan Abnett had the MC tame a bolter warrior with her vampire pussy.
>>97404301Oh man I had completely forgotten Glimmer Rats. Yeah, that was just IG dudes going into the Warp right?
>>97404301>>97404648Wait, Glimmer Rats was Gordon Rennie not Dan Abnett.
>>97398430> His Moriarty/Moran short stories are my favourite Holmes fictionDidn't know he did any Holmes stories! Thanks, anon, I'll check them out!
>>97397403either you are fucking retarded, or simply baiting. Either way, I wish you a very unpleasant retrograde ejaculation
>>97397403Abnett also wrote some Judge Dredd comics for AD2000 that were very obviously just 40k stories with some names changed (40k and Dredd already share a lot of DNA, but when you go from the normal Dredd plotlines to not!Space Marines fighting rebellious colonists in space it's pretty obvious the whole thing started as a rejected 40k comic plot).
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art (either created by you or used as inspiration for your work). Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have!Last thread: >>97165346Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5 (embed) (embed)https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/Fantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/wbi/: https://discord.gg/6ZjEc7dy4TWorldbuilding Hub: https://discord.com/invite/wGjxK3YThe Writer's Forge: https://discord.com/invite/CUxHxWqTira: https://discord.com/invite/f52W6KgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97320501No it didn't. Traditional medicine was entirely useless. I'm saying that as an actual doctor posted in a rural area.
>Exposure to sapients can induce a soul in objects.>Ships gain Klabautermann due to decades or centuries of sailors. Now scale that up for the space age....>Space Colonies can have millions of inhabitants.>They typically last centuries.>They represent the hopes and dreams of an entire new human raceYeah, Space Colonies have evolved their own spirits that can influence material reality. Best case scenario, they can actually help defend the colony from dangerous accidents and outside attack.
>>97407111>Well, Harry Potter used them as mere animals abused to guard treasures for wizards or goblinsNTA, but they were also essentially treated like cattle, being allowed to live only in specifically designated dragon reserves where they are regularly harvested for parts.Dragons are used for everywhere in the wizarding world like>their heart strings are one of the most common and powerful cores for wands>their hide is has magic resistant properties and is used for fancy clothing like jackets and boots and the like, but also for protective equipment like gloves all children are exppected to wear for potion class.>their blood has a dozen known uses ranging from being a useful potion ingredient to being used as spot remover and oven cleaner.>their meat is put on wounds to help treat the pain, also occasionally prepared and eaten like DragonTartare>they produce milk that is used for cheese making>powered dragon claw is snorted by students before exams as it supposdely helps the brain focus. Its also used in potions>their dung is used as fertilizer for magical herbs>their horns were also powdered and used in potions.>their livers and eggs were used in potions tooPersonally I really like this as Dragons in setting are not really any less dangerous than you expect dragons to be, but they've become the equivalent of powerful animals in the real world where we have to go out of our way to not hunt them to extinction, only difference is their parts also useful beyond just status symbol.
>>97407377As I said, abused animals. HP is an anthrocentric setting where humans are the center of creation.
>>97405931>The real resources aren't in planets, they're in asteroids.It will literally never be cheaper to mine asteroids than to refine an element from resources on earth.I don't have planet-mania. I know how much space travel costs. Even if we had theoretical megastructures that make launching and landing cheaper, it would still not be more cost effective to fetch asteroids than to refine shit on earth.To use a comparison, it would be like harvesting icebergs for fresh water instead of using desalination. Technically possible but dumb as fuck.
What’s the edgiest tabletop game of all time
It’s interesting how rape is seen as edgier than murder. Must have something to do with the humiliation factor.
>>97389444there's no reason to believe either of those wasn't Homelander though
>>97405470>muh racist magic armors>muh bad simulationist rules for rapenot really
>>97408203It wasn't always the case. Rape literally just means theft, which should tell you exactly what it used to be seem as. It's probably just because of misandrist feminism: statistically speaking, murder is a crime against men, rape is a crime against women.
>>97408290*seen as
So context. I used to DM for my friends a while back but I've been struggling with creating a game I'm happy running for a few years now. It's not the end of the world, we do TCGs instead but part of me wants to get back into running tabletop games.So I started DMing with DnD 5e but for my own reasons I stopped running the system. The only other system I'm really confident running is Mutants and Masterminds 3e.Lately I've been seeing videos from some of the old school types talking about the nature of dungeons, and I've also been reading Dungeon Meshi, and I've had the itch to try making a mega dungeon for a game. Thing is, I don't wanna run 5e, I'm not confident trying to run an older version of the game, I don't have access to the books for OSR. What I do have is Mutants and Masterminds.So my friend and I were talking about this, and he suggested exploring the idea of running a dungeon crawl in M&M. Now to me that sounds a bit absurd, they're so tonally dissonant I can't really imagine it, so I thought I'd bring it to you guys. If your GM came up to you and said "I'm running a dungeon crawl in M&M", what would your thoughts be? Does it sounds a good idea? How would you do it? What would you emphasise, what would you ignore?Thanks in advance /tg/, I hope with your advice I can get myself out of this nogame slump I've been in
>>97407210Holy shit, I did not know this existed, thank you! Which version is it for? And any idea how it handles as a system?
>>97407219Probably 2nd edition. It has advice on powers, items etc that would be helpful for any sword and sorcery m&m game.I played one game where we converted our D&D characters to M&M. I personally liked it. Especially thjngs like exerting yourself for more powers felt thematic. However D&D is designed around resource managment like spells, HP, healing etc. M&M is easier to break, and has very different design goals. A lot of the powers from M&M are pretty weird in a fantasy setting.I'd play a mega dungeon with M&M. But I would go in expecting something more like a conan comic in a badass mega dungeon than a gritty slog. Mega dungeons are best when they have differ factions opposed to each other and maybe the characters have to choose a side.
>>97407262I haven't read a lot of Conan but I love the Arnold movie, enjoyed Red Sonja, I reckon this could be good!So I should definitely make sure to incorporate human factions with interests in the dungeon. It's the sort of "missing the forest for the trees" thing I would miss, monsters are fine but I need to make sure I include human interests.As far as powers go, most can be flavoured as magic. The only one I can think of off top of my head I'd have a problem with would be 3e's immortality powers. Are there any glaring ones I'm missing? Like I said, been too long since I last ran a game, a touch rusty on the old memory
>>97407130How do you run a game with candy coated pieces of chocolate?
>>97407130I really feel like David Jason was an odd choice for Rincewind. In my mind Rincewind was maybe a middle aged guy at most, if not a similar age to Ponder Stibbons (who definitely fills in a university-aged role).
Prototype editionHere is a thread to discuss trading card games other than the big three.>Build Divide>Force of Will>Final Fantasy TCG>DBZ CCG>Wixoss>Keyforge>Gundam>Legend of the 5 Rings (L5R)>Digimon>Flesh and Blood>Gate RulerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97408072Yeah but none of my LGSs do ACGs.
>>97408118My heart aches for you man it really does
>plays waifu decks in one piece (nami and boa)>next set is a waifu set upgrading both decks>set is already scalped
NOOOONOOOOOOOOOOOOFUCKFABTHIS IS THE YEAR FAB ITS SUPPOSED TO DIE
have been thinking about getting into the gundam tcg, have pretty much only played mtg. How are you guys enjoying?
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.
>>97351811>Eh, I can understand why they don't want to dip their toes into current day conspiracy bullshit, it seems a lot less fuckin' fun than it did in the early daysThere's been a bunch of antivaxx scenarios in the shotgun contest the last few years, and you aren't wrong, they are mostly depressing and not fun or pulpy at all.>>97355410>maybe relate it to your favorite deity who knowsYeah put Nyarlathotep as the scooby doo villain of yet another scenario, great idea.
>>97400633>future/perfect is a really good vertical slice of Detwiller"I see you have tried to interact with the scenario, have some instadeath."
Can someone please confirm if I understand the Call of Cthulhu 7e rules for Full Auto fire correctly?>Investigator has a uses a 1D10+2 damage Tommy gun with a 50-bullet drum barrel.>Has a Firearms (SMG) skill of 75% so they fire 7 bullets per volley. >Apparently you can fire as many volleys as you want as long as the weapon has ammo.>1st volley: Rolls attack. Hits, so half the bullets hit (rounded down) dealing 3D10+6 damage. Remaining bullets: 43>2nd volley: Rolls attack with a penalty die. Hits and deals 3D10+6 damage again. Remaining bullets: 36>3rd volley: Rolls attack with two penalty dice. Misses this time, so zero damage but still used 7 ammo: Remaining bullets: 29>4th volley: Rolls attack with two penalty dice and requiring a hard success to hit. Misses again, so zero damage but still used 7 ammo: Remaining bullets: 15>5th volley: Rolls attack with two penalty dice and requiring an extreme success to hit. Misses again, so zero damage but still used 7 ammo: Remaining bullets: 8>6th volley: Rolls attack with two penalty dice and requiring a critical success to hit. Misses again, so zero damage but still used 7 ammo: Remaining bullets: 1>The player cannot fire any more volleys because it has become impossible to hit, so they end their turn.Is this correct? Aside from the facts that armor is applied to each damage roll separately, and if the Investigator wants to switch targets between volleys they have to pay 1 bullet/yard in wasted ammo. Also, obviously they'd probably stop firing after the second/third volley because the chance to hit just becomes abysmal.
>>97376369>But what IS an example of the standard KiY scenario all the rest are based on?Pls Respond
Bit of an out there question, can anyone think of an interesting way to build a tramway, or at least tramway heavy, chase sequence in Call of Cthulhu. It's an idea I came up with during our last session and I can't help but feel it could be really fun if done well.
>designed to be the "40k killer">slips into obscurity shortly after release What went wrong?
>>97406773I really liked their Lovecraft stuff. Never got a chance to buy them.
>>97406773Did they sell unpainted models or just prepainted?
>>97407611>fucking Mi-Go figurinesi must have them
>>97406668my guess is that rackham is a small french company that got quickly stomped by the british juggernaut that GW grown up to be by the early 2000s. did they design this game in the late 80s when tabletop gaming was at its infancy they might've had a shot. but the faggots at Nottingham would do anything to stay top dog. i don't know if they would send pinkertons to harass competition like WotC but i think they would use any possible legal tool to snuff them out.
>>97406668AT-43 was literally 20 years ago, the wargaming landscape was completely different. No social media (besides a bunch of scattered and disconnected forums), no kickstarter, no real way to soft launch a new game/setting and slowly build up hype as a small indie company. All they could, and did do, was hard launch the game at a bunch of trade shows and hope for the best. Then they quickly ran out of money because they overestimated how much 2007 people would care about a wargame where the hobby part is taken out and it died.Bit of a shame because the main 3 factions in the setting + the gorillas were absolutely peak aesthetics wise (you can tell they contracted a bunch of GW artists in their prime lol) and the rules were really forward thinking at a time when old school warhammery shit like IGYG and real LoS were still pretty much standard.
This thread is dedicated to all kinds of solo games, systems, tools, and campaigns.Fail Forward Edition.>Last Thread: >>97062042Resources:https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/orhttps://desuarchive.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/type/op/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I've been enjoying Kal Arath so far. Are there any tables or supplements that can adapt the setting for sci fi or western adventures? I can kind of come up with setting stuff on the fly, but I'm having trouble when it comes to building combat encounters since I don't know how to make balanced enemies appropriately themed to the other genres.
>>97405113Arathi Sector is kal arath in space
>>97399730There is a web app.https://juiceroll.curlyquote.com/>>97398646I would be surprised if ACKS or some other OSR game with extensive domain management does not have that playstyle covered, I don't have too good insights since I'm not too much into domain play.
>>97388462Might have the best rules in the world, but that cover turns me off. I can't play games with silly children cartoon images or anime images.
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Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97397314
>>97408341It still have that unmistakable AI smoothness and sheen.
>>97408395Rakeschizo=The Anglerfish
>>97408374>yet here we are talking about it the last few days.We aren't. It's just one guy.
>>97408372>Whoever made the cyoaits either cyrus or pca
>>97408367Gaia weakened them all with a power-suppressing veil that only effects foreign entities or something.It would also explain why aliens are scared to make contact.
Tabletop RPGs tend to split up crafting into a high number of crafting subskills for every individual area of expertise. There's no question that crafting is still extremely powerful despite forcing you to go through this hassle, but what are your thoughts on which particular crafting subskills tend to be the most useful in the context of a TTRPG campaign, be it a medieval or modern or sci-fi setting?Pic related is from Legend of the Five Rings, where I'll be playing a crafter soon, and I intend to invest heavily into crafting. But feel free to talk about any game you've had experience with.
>>97405433What do you think we're talking about?
>>97402159party face? what are you talking about?
>>97406228>what do you mean ! ? ! ?>LE BOOMP
>>97407108Guy is either using innovative tactics or has genuinely never played a game in his life
>>97407689There's no such thing as a face, retard. The party isn't a single being. Every player interacts with people in the world.
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>>97401068>That's a conjuration effect, not magic
>>97400457Cobalt Dragons from Dragon Magazine #356 uses it for the fluff of how its Bull Rush Breath Weapon works.>>97401068>>97403570It seems perfectly legitimate to separate magic that does something vaguely related to the desired force from the actual force itself, particularly when said "relation" is doing the opposite of the usual function to things it shouldn't apply to.
>>97403632if it doesn't have an elemental plane it's not real
>>97406529tough tits, I just invented the hemisemidemiplane of magnetism, diametrically opposed to the hemisemidemiplane of the juggalos
I don't wish to start bullshit, but this is the place to ask:Is it easier to make a Captain America expy (hand to hand, uses shield offensively and defensively) of at level effectiveness (ie not hyper optimized ubercharger but serviceable in a group) in 3.5, or easier in PF1e?I am not against initiator classes, but I would rather not run to them at first, viewing them as a crutch at times.
