How do I make a campaign revolving around the gimmick Arios Theoman's sword Escude revolves around work?To explain>Arios is the "hero" of the setting>He has a magical sword that gets more powerful the more humanity dies>It's a dilemma - he needs the sword to be at least 30 percent powered up to be able to even hurt the demons ravaging his world, but to do that he needs to allow humans to die - or even actively curtail their population himself so as to paradoxically save them It's a killer concept - but I feel like as a campaign it becomes hard to gamify since the players could literally just do nothing, allow the sword to get powered up, and kill the big bad without any moral dilemma at all
>>97284375That's retarded.
>>97284375Why didn't they make a magic sword that didn't need people to die and was just at 100% all the time?
>>97284375I guess you could give each PC a distinct legendary weapon or artifact that gives various buffs depending on the current human population. It could be something as simple as "+X to all stats", as crucial as "ignore X points of any demon's innate supernatural damage resistance", or it could be something unique to every weapon.You should also have a "human population" statistic that the PCs can check with their weapons at any time. It doesn't have to give an exact number. You can just give a hint like "the weapon feels colder than when you last held it, as if the sollective life force of humanity is dwindling" or an abstract rating like "3 out of 10 jewels on the legendary scepter's head have faded black."When the PCs complete a quest, you might adjust the human population depending on how well the PCs succeeded in their quest. You might determine this with a random roll, use a character of modifiers depending on how many objectives were accomplished, or just go by vibes.If a PC dies, you might allow the weapon to be passed along to a new PC, or you might allow the old PC to be revived at great cost to the human population (it might require willing sacrifices, or maybe a fraction of the remaining population just gets magically Thanos-snapped at random). I think allowing PCs to revive at a cost is a neat idea, since it creates dynamic difficulty (if the PCs do well, then more people are saved, but things get harder for them; if the PCs are struggling, then they can just power up at the cost of human lives) and saves the trouble of having to roll up a new character.If the PCs choose the easy path to power, or too many humans die, then make sure they feel the consequences. Places where the PCs can rest and resupply become sparser, replaced by ghost towns. Human allies and support networks become fewer and more expensive. Demons become more numerous (but not individually more powerful). And so on.
>>97286300forgive me, I might be having a stroke>sollective life forcecollective>character of modifierschart of modifiers
>>97284375What if instead of requiring a % of population dying the sword is just powered up by human souls consumed? Then your players have to actively decide if it's worth it to personally slay innocents to power the sword enough to fight demons.
Previous Thread: >>97278407>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>Former Commander website, where you can learn the basics, and read the format philosophy laid down by the rules committeehttps://mtgcommander.netComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97286504You wish.
>>97286534Malcom ought to be a bird too, based on that art.
>>97286551How does that stop maskwood nexus from turning her into a bird?
>>97286556Sirens should have been birds since avens are birds too, so I agree.>>97286565I think anon is implying Soraya herself is not a bird, so somehow she cannot be a bird tribal commander despite being a bird lord.
>>97286565It doesn't, but I thought you were trying to make everything falcons.
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>>97284910go/d/ggOyvF
PLEASE IF ANY HAVE AFRICAN MONSTERS FROM LEGENDARY GAMES, HAPPY NEW YEAR
>>97279663Pulp! from Osprey please. Thanks in advance!
Does anyone have Riftbreakers 2e card set?https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/536766/complete-combat-abilities-collection-for-riftbreakers-bundle?src=newest_recent
Looking for the following from Loke Battlemats:Books of Battlemats: Castles, Crypts & CavernsBig Book of Battlemats: Cells and ShrinesGiant Book of Battlemats: Streets, Sewers & CemeteriesBig Book of Battle Mats - Bastions & StrongholdsBig Book of Battle Mats - Rooms, Vaults & ChambersTricks & Traps Token Set
A thread for discussing the Star Wars franchise and its various media and tabletop games.Sheev I'm NJO editionPrevious: >>97217145Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing, Armada, and Legion>https://pastebin.com/9puqx1zeStar Wars Roleplaying Games (d6/d20/FFG)>https://pastebin.com/iUriRfaAOther FFG Star Wars tabletop (Imperial Assault, Destiny and the LCG)>http://pastebin.com/ZE4gn0yNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97285397>star wars is srs bizness
>>97283431He ALMOST did from my E-Web, but it couldn't get through the final dodge token shared from Leia.
>>97283357>Damn, that terrain looks really dense.Both players started on skirmish games, so we have fun overloading tables with terrain.
>>97285371They should have just accepted each other and continued as a throuple instead of succumbing to jealousy. That would have been the Jedi way.
>>97285371Awful art. Wouldn't torture myself looking at it.
Obscure conflicts editionPrevious thread:>>97095668>Thread Question:Which obscure conflict would you like to collect miniatures for and get a game going?>Community Summary of Wargames:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11JoUpGIRDp5DZdgJ24rijKHgyY-qvvR5QnVtHIp57Tw/edit?usp=sharing>List of Historical Tactical, Strategic, and Military Drill treatises:http://pastebin.com/BfMeGd6R>ZunTsu Gameboxes:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Does anyone have any good book recommendations on the Great Northern War?
>>97259539I'd recommend Check Your 6 instead of WoG or or BRS. It's a lot of fun, there's modules for WW1, WW2 and Korea, and it's quick to learn.
Does anyone happen to have Lasalle 2nd edition? I just seem to be able to find the first edition in the megas, although I do appreciate that.
>>97286071Why does Mustafa have like half a dozen different Napoleonkc rulesets? Do they play at different scales or something?
Any of you lads play reinforced platoon level skirmish WW2 (CoC etc) in 15mm? Want some honest opinions on how single based 15mm models work in this scale. I'm concerned about readability of single based 15mm figures, and I like making terrain and am also concerned single models might get a bit lost in the clutter of a table. I know Storm of Steel uses 15mm but his terrain is a bit more austere than I try to make.
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.
>>97280345I watched this video on printing a giant kumiko wall hanger that's 11 feet by 3 feet.
>>97281376How big are the pieces? The funny thing with resin is, if you print one or many on the same printrun, it takes the same time. FDM on the other hand takes the same time per model, so two take twice as long.So it could be that printing in resin would take way less time than fdm if you can cram enough onto the buildplate.
>>97276255resin allows finer details but different material properties. FDM is generally a less-involved and quicker process at the expense of minute detail. FDM printers tend to have more buildspace and filament is generally cheaper than resin so it's good for terrain, and filament is generally better for functional parts due to the properties of the materials used to print.tldr resin is good for visual pieces, fdm is good for functional pieces. resin printing is a more labor intensive process>>97276818fuckin' wiseguy uh? kek
I'm at my wits end with the saturn 3 I have, will not stay level after screws tighten no matter what I do. I tried fdm printing a whole frame to keep it still in spite of it but it still manages to completely tweak itself out of alignment.The saturn 4 ultra looks good but I am drawn by the photon p1 for how easy it looks like to switch screens.
>>97280091Was bound to happen with how lax Cults' moderation is tbdesu. It'll probably peter out as the christmas newfag wave goes back to work or finds their footing.
Should rogue maidens be holy or unholy?
>>97278080Stop bumping AI spam threads.
>>97281965>puckee spamming his commission againhttps://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/z8dw3w/comm_art_magpie_by_kartstudio/https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/jynultXDc4JJ3_XSM1WuPw/>41 times
>>97281965Holy fuck this looks like SHIT!
>>97244418>shouldfaggOP, just make your own character. make your own mind the fuck up, your OC Donut Steel could be a demi-gender half-dragon turtle Bear Totem Barbarian that fights for its Carebear totem against the Evil Barneyfag and its legion of Homestuck character dude, its you game, why should we give an ounce of a damn about what you're doing in your game, let alon how you make a character or how you don't make them.Its all engagement bait for YT 4chan AI storytimes and its making me so pessimistic about the death of creativity, imagination and the loss of the sense of wonder humanity once had.We're never getting stuff like LOTRs ever again, we're so devoid of cognitive power, our great ancestors like Aristotle, Galileo, Shakespeare and Washington would condemn us to perdition because we've made ourselves so much lesser than our forebears ever were.George Washington Whooped the ass out of the most powerful army and their hired mercenaries 3 times in the span of a week and turned the dying embers of revolution into a brazen inferno.Shakespeare wrote generational plays that inspired some of the greatest authors known to humanityAristotle inspired multiple generations of philosophers and create an entire subset of soft science through the reverberation of his work through the agesGalileo revolutionized science and payed the ultimate price for his so-called 'insolence', dying at the pyre, speaking a truth so bold and so utterly mind boggling that the Pope himself sent him a letter to shut his mouth about the idea that 'the planet is a sphere'.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I'm seriously considering downloading every puckee image I can find, and spamming the board with them.You fuckers honestly deserve it with how much attention you give him.
Christmas Edition>Previous thread:>>97173638Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Epic, Kill Team,Man-o-War, Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, Mordheim,Necromunda, Shadow War: Armageddon, Titanicus, Underworlds,Warcry, Warhammer Quest, Warmaster ...... and any other GW system and board game are welcome.>Helpful resources: (feel free to suggest additions!)https://pastebin.com/qq9N8V0V>TQComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97285594wonder if the new star players will still be in resin or if GW has fully transitioned to plastic-only models
>>97281343Forgot Necrons>UnderdevelopedNecron
Does anyone have a pdf scan of the Spitewood rulebook? Gib plz. Can suck toes in return.
>>97283249I wish we could actually determine which of these two things was most often happening:1) new players are learning which gangs are "originals" and are specifically making the decision to play Enforcer/Squat/CGC to somehow distinguish themselves as fresh unbiased players2) new players aren't really doing the research to even know which gangs are originals, and Enforcers/Squats/CGC just legitimately have the most widely-appealing aesthetics of all the new designs
>>97286385Both Enforcers and Squat had influx of releases in short period of time and that sparked interest in new players.Enforcer is the most request gang for a long time due to them carried a legacy of being overpowered in old necromunda, their pop culture reference to Judge Dredd, and their status of being the police in a criminal gang wars game, making new players more attracted to them.
OOP editionInfinity is a 28mm tabletop skirmish game produced by Corvus Belli, and includes the related games Aristeia, Defiance, TAG Raid, REM Racers, and Acheron's Fall. Corvus Belli also produces the fantasy games Warcrow and Warcrow Adventures.>Latest official update:January preorders>Rules and missions:https://infinitythewiki.com/index.phphttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/resourceshttps://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/infinity/its>Beginner FAQs and guides:https://pastebin.com/x06JG55U https://pastebin.com/xtQzRcq5 https://pastebin.com/xUBR7QFU Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>97281124Poland lost
>>97286317Is the cat helmet really neccessary?
Sharing useful wisdom that has helped me run more satisfying games. Trying to share some less common advice. These are my opinions and techniques that have helped me. I’d love to hear what has worked for other /tg/ DMs.1. Time pressure- adding time pressure through use of "clocks" including real life clocks is incredibly helpful to add pressure and tension to a scenario. Giving players choices but not enough time to make every choice adds meaning to those choices. Time pressure in combat is a contentious, but powerful tool to discuss with your players. Forcing a decision in seconds makes combat stressful and - when players are on board- fun (in anticipation of the common objection: if the players don’t make a choice in combat, I usually come back to them before round end, I never have them “just stand there”. Remember to assume character competency).2- The GM-ing engine- It's okay to front load content and prepare a few different rail-roady hooks in the first few sessions. Being a GM is like starting one of those old prop engines with a winch. It takes a while for the pistons (players) to kick into gear. Once they do, after a few sessions, all you need to do is apply gas. Solve the tavern problem by figuring out how characters know each other prior to the first session. 3- Immersion means impact- After a session, reflect on how the player choices affected the world (for good or ill), try to let the ripple of that effect emerge in the next session. Players that feel like they change the world around them invest in it.
>>97278784>Introduce factions>have factions be represented by NPCs that the players actually interact withThis will write a good 40% of sessions for you.Just introduce a bunch of factions and let the NPCs that represent them have history and conflict with one another.
>>97282893I'll post more if you actually engage with any of the questions.
>>97284287>if you actually engage with any of the questions.Which questions?
>>97283916No, completely wrong, you are an idiot and part of the problem. There is a single thing, called railroading, that is always a negative, and constantly either diluting the phrase, and trying to trick yourself into thinking there are somehow good railroads is an idiots past time.
>>97283385Good post, I feel illuminated.>>97284098Bad post. I love milsim games and I definitely want the gear autism and the preparation. In fantasy games it doesn't matter (there are barely any interesting tools outside of magic).
Thoughts on Scion?
>>97257539Its good in concept but it doesnt run so good and the books are set up like ass. Bad layout and hard to use. Some solid concepts, but not that great at the end of the day.
>>97275695How will Celtoids ever recover?
>>97257539>You play as a Demigod>There’s a Lovecraft PantheonHow does that work exactly? The Dunwich Horror featured some Lovecraftian Demigods, and I don’t think that’s really something that fits into the setting.
>>97281865They’re mostly Chosen Scion, instead of Born
>>97281782For a game about myths and gods, people don't treat the source material with any love.Lugh is not a sun god like Apollo or Amaterasu, he shouldn't be lumped in with them.
Why are wolves so common in TTRPGs as enemies?
>>97269790Because they hunt in packs, obviously.
>>97282012>fuckee thread transforms into bumpfag threadhow joyous
>>97276168With no exaggeration, this would be a thousand times hotter if they were anthros instead.
>>97276374>>97276377Both of you underestimate what a human can do. There's been reports of unarmed people killing mountain lions and bears, a wolf is just an aggressive dog, you can beat one of those to death.
>>97283904If you used your brain you would notice that those reports are very rare. The odds of you winning are not in your favor.
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
>>97284665Honestly, I do too. A lot of 4e fans hate it because it stepped away from the AEDU framework and people who liked 4e liked that framework, but I don't actually care about that: an attack is an attack, and "hit harder" is a perfectly valid improvement rather than getting a "hit REALLY hard 1/encounter and move enemy one step / give enemy -1 slaves for 1 round/etc."A lot of 4e's problem is having too much faff in combat, and Essentials classes reduced the faff
>>97284813If your players don't go hard in the paint, it can work, especially if you modulate battles towards their strengths.>>97284845I gently disagree, as I believe the wealth of options at all times was a boon for players who wanted to have meaningful impact outside 'I hit the dude'.I've brought in almost a dozen new players to the hobby with 4e, and I have found that it is fairly easy to understand, has depth, and forges good habits of mindfulness and paying attention to the battle when the spotlight isn't directly on you.One of my cherished memories was running a game for some teens at my LGS, and the fighter being the star because she just ran around protecting everyone, forcing a chokepoint and battering the attacking spider demons.The look on her face when the party was cheering her on, watching the group fall in together like a well oiled engine, supporting each other, that is what this hobby really is about for me.That was more than 10 years ago. I wonder what they are doing now?
>>97236120Of course 4e is going through a rennaissance. Compared to the monster that is 5e, 4e is very GM friendly to the point where a guy who hates making preps can actually run a decent campaign.
>>97284665I'm a big 4e fan and an Essentials hater but I'd still rather run pure Essentials than 3e or 5e. Its hated because of how boring its classes are compared to the base game, how unbalanced its classes are even compared to each other and the fact that it throttled books 4e fans actually wanted in the crib like the rest of the X Power 2 books and the Nentir Vale lore book. It then caused a sales crash which killed the edition, exactly what Mearls wanted when he started Essentials. The Monster Vaults, Rules Compendium, adventures and equipment book would have been 10/10 if they weren't formatted like shit. I wish it had run long enough for Monster Vault 2 to redux MM2 like how MV1 was a 95% redux of MM1 with the better math and more options.
>>97284845It's not valid when it breaks the game's curve in an attempt to be different from AEDU. The Essentials classes that aren't worthless dogshit are either still AEDU or are broken as fuck early on and degrade into dogshit later. This is bad when the entire point of 4E was to get away from the Fighter solely hitting things with a stick and sucking at high levels.
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>>97285903Morning, brochito
Anyone got renders a la Beksinski-dark fantasy mix?
>>97285903That general is dead on arrival.
Just take the 1,5 pill, the sooner the better even with absolutely no artstyles whatsoever>>97285903|･ω･)ﾉthere's the discord, there's no need for a general
>>97286457Speaking of artstyles, I tried describing a woman’s outfit with “extremely low cut” it completely changed the artstyleAfter two weeks, I still can’t wrap my head around what the fuck kind of blocks/censorship they have introduced
Grogmas in the hive streets editionPrevious Thread:>>97019770Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://gofile.io/d/yNK9bq
Anybodny know how big(to eyes level) was classic Bloodthirster?
>>97285042I can't give specific dimensions but here it is beside an Ogre for reference.
>>97285083So, around 4-4,5 cm.
>>97283083>>97283105I like the current ones.
>>97285885shame about the faces all being ":P" because otherwise they're a decent reinterpretation of the older murdernoodle shaped ones.>>97285042Those original greater daemons were small as fuck.
